Rick Prelinger's Keynote at Future Histories

Archivist Rick Prelinger gave the Keynote Address at the Future Histories of the Moving Image Conference (Nov 16-18, 2007). He has posted a pdf of the presentation on his blog BlackOysterCatcher

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