[LINK] The Next Ten Years

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Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>
> > maybe the Internet, not paper, will be the primary record/communication
> > medium
> > with documents provided in HTML, and forrests will no longer cut down to
> > make
> > paper or room to grow biofuels
>
> The problem with digital is preservation=2E I doubt we even have much
> left from, say, the 1960s on tape :( And even if you found such a tape,
> could you (a) physically read it and (b) logically decode it?
>=20
> Imagine a digital Principia being uncovered in some 320 years
> and being able to read it=2E We are a far far away from that goalE


I think to the role that certain monkish types played during the dark ages, preserving knowledge...

Because in some ways, it will be the handful of hard core enthusiasts who are keen on preserving information from some particular area that will heavily influence the tone and nature of our times in the future=2E  Hey, if ain't in the minutes, it wasn't said at the meeting!

Consider the recent case of the fellow who has been uploading old Countdown 
music video clips that he'd receorded and kept on tapes in a pile in his bed
room.  For many of these clips, there was no other copy=2E

An oldish, but not unreasonable paper to get the thinking juices flowing:
 Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Information - Jeff Rothenberg, RAND
 http://www.clir.org/PUBS/archives/ensuring.pdf

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> rickw
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