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Perhaps this calls for a stenographical solution within the relevant programs that identifies the colored images as altered? I suppose it's not practical, but I
by ClintEhrlich 11y ago
Perhaps this calls for a stenographical solution within the relevant programs that identifies the colored images as altered? I suppose it's not practical, but I feel like the optimal solution would be some way of distinguishing between the level of accuracy needed for scholarship and for that of informal web postings.
There is no reason to allow a zero-sum relationship to emerge between casual browsers and serious researchers. If that is a valid concern (and I don't think it is) then the solution is to accelerate academic efforts to document the web — not to needlessly restrict the popularization of history among the proles.
And, regardless of anything else, I would challenge you to name a single consequence of the miscolored Macs. Why does it matter whether the future knows whether that color was introduced in 1984 or 1987?
Isn't it more important that 200 years ago they still have media that makes people remember Steve Jobs?
- jameshart 11y agoThe only thing the colorizer is adding is color. Where the color is speculative, you would hope it would be informed by history. Where the color can be known with certainty, you would hope the artist would abide by that.
- JadeNB 11y ago> Isn't it more important that 200 years ago they still have media that makes people remember Steve Jobs? Yes, but wouldn't a black-and-white photograph do that as well, and be less deceptive?