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I note with interest how her travelogue was rediscovered. How will this work a couple hundred years from now when people of our generation put stuff online inst
by classichasclass 8y ago
I note with interest how her travelogue was rediscovered. How will this work a couple hundred years from now when people of our generation put stuff online instead of pen to paper? Will there hopefully be a local copy on their computer, assuming the SSD or HD hasn't died and later generations can read it? Or will it simply perish when the hosting bill isn't paid, or the account is inactive?
A lot of memoirs from this writer's era certainly didn't survive either, but it seems like there was a greater chance back then even considering the cost of pen, ink and paper.
- pjmlp 8y agoI think about that every time I am visiting an archaeological site with stone inscriptions. Looking 5000 years in the future, no one will be able to read our documents, like we do with those written 5000 years ago.
- thfuran 8y agoReading 25 year old documents is hard enough. I mean, none of my current computers even has an optical drive, let alone a 3.5" floppy. To say nothing of the actually-floppy floppies.