Records Management at the Movies - Records and Information ...
Records Management at the Movies - Records and Information ...
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Disclosurewww.rammell.comThe film version of Michael Crichton's novel in which <strong>the</strong> electronic records of <strong>the</strong> computercompany in which <strong>the</strong> action is set are visualised in <strong>the</strong>ir experimental virtual realityenvironment as a series of folders in vertical filing cabinets, <strong>the</strong> drawers of which aremarked with topic labels <strong>and</strong> open on voice comm<strong>and</strong>. When <strong>the</strong> hero (Michael Douglas)enters <strong>the</strong> virtual reality space looking for 'files' he w<strong>at</strong>ches <strong>the</strong>m physically disappear as <strong>the</strong>evil hard woman who is trying to destroy his career (Demi(Moore) sits <strong>at</strong> her computer inreal time <strong>and</strong> deletes <strong>the</strong>m. He is able to recover <strong>the</strong> crucial deleted e-mails e<strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rdocuments he needs by having <strong>the</strong>m faxed to him by <strong>the</strong> recipient in <strong>the</strong> firm's Asianmanufacturing plant.This gives him a hardcopy product <strong>and</strong> by passes <strong>the</strong> firm's e-mail esystem from which he hasbeen maliciously excluded.
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