By Amanda Walgrove The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email correspondence can make interpersonal connections seem trivial and dispassionate, but technological advancements can also produce meaningful intimacy. For example, we can video chat with estranged loved ones on the iPhone and reconnect with old friends through social media networks. The resources of cyberspace not only affect how we communicate, but also how we access, preserve, and retain information. On the eve of International Holocaust Day, Yad Vashem announced that the world's largest collection of Holocaust archives would be incorporated into Google's overwhelmingly vast pool of virtual documents. Yad Vashem began digitizing their collection in the 1990's but collaboration with Google is a vast leap for any remote assemblage of archives. What...

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