Do you see the trend of moving away from print to digital when it comes to Books, alarming? Different forms of writings, whether the drawings on the cave walls, or hieroglyphics inside great pyramid, or even letters of Einstein to Roosevelt - preserved the history for us. Some of the above mentioned examples were lost and discovered again. I don’t see that “surviving the test of time” strength in digital media. We are moving towards becoming a paperless society too fast.
What if a catastrophic event eliminates a major portion of the modern world? What if a virus wipes out every single hard drive and server of this world? We will be left with no recorded history of this era.
Yes we are cutting the tees, but we are preserving our history. What our tree huggers have to say about that?
Muqawwee, our recorded history may but matter much for folks couple of centuries in future, but couple of thousand years from now, it would matter.
L.P., cave drawings survived, clay tablets from old civilizations survived, letters written on sheep skin survived. You think our hard drives are going to survive thousand years?
Muqawwee, our recorded history may but matter much for folks couple of centuries in future, but couple of thousand years from now, it would matter.
L.P., cave drawings survived, clay tablets from old civilizations survived, letters written on sheep skin survived. You think our hard drives are going to survive thousand years?
records on monograms survived, so we can hope for an alternate to hard disks.
We don't use caves, clay tablets or sheep skin anymore either.
The papers we use may not survive the test of time. The hard drives may not survive either. But what if in the future they invented stuff to retrieve data from hard drives we thought were waste. Or maybe everything will be destroyed.
