@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1128, 

TITLE={Science fiction and "imaginary innovations": a typological essay on total memory technologies}, 
  
AUTHOR={Emmanuelle Caccamo, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={9}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/Science-fiction-and-imaginary-innovations-a-typological-essay-on}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1128}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={This paper presents a classification of the various types of "total memory" technologies that have been imagined in a corpus of audiovisual science fiction between 1990 and 2022. These technologies, which often use the metaphor of memory as a database or plan, are depicted as allowing for the digitization and storage of human memories, as well as the retrieval and even modification of these memories and the identities of individuals. Through this analysis, this paper aims to explore such technological innovations for the enhancement or alteration of human mnemonic abilities.}}