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Why should they be preserved? Why should it stick around forever? The "useful tools" have been replaced with better tools available today. It's the same reason
by SamuelAdams 6y ago
Why should they be preserved? Why should it stick around forever?
The "useful tools" have been replaced with better tools available today. It's the same reason why most people don't use a rock and chisel to build a house - better tools exist and older tools have been abandoned or mentioned in history books.
Plenty of games, musical bands, and artwork over the last century have been lost to time and forgotten. There's plenty of Jazz music in the 1930's and 40's that was never recorded to paper or vinyl. And that's OK. People moved on to other forms of art.
- arexxbifs 6y agoIf you bought a board game in the 1930:s, chances are you can still play it if you've been careful when handling it. If you bought a cast iron skillet in the 1940:s, chances are you can still cook with it if you've treated it right. If your favorite game is a Flash game bought in 2010, you will not be able to play it anymore. Is it because software is not as tangible that we accept just how fleeting its permanence is?
- Dylan16807 6y agoThis isn't about losing the copies of the art itself. Imagine if all chisels in the world stopped working. That would not be okay. But I think you can use the standalone flash player?
- mahoho 6y agoI think most people would agree that it's worthwhile (for various reasons) to preserve art if there are reasonable means to do so. Obviously there is a lot of artwork we've managed to preserve for centuries or millennia. There's no reason we need to wistfully resign ourselves to "the way of the world" here.