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They'll say the physical version is a fake too. Though I say for really important works, having a physical copy in addition to the digital one is a must. Digit
by romwell 6y ago
They'll say the physical version is a fake too.
Though I say for really important works, having a physical copy in addition to the digital one is a must. Digital data is easy to copy — and easy to lose. And bit rot is a thing.
- ystad 6y agowell it is important, that the digitized version can be traced back to the original.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoWhy is it important? So we can show that it couldn't have been faked after the digitizing process?
- PostOnce 6y agoSomething else important w/r/t keeping originals: Who could have foreseen that our new imaging technology would allow us to read the otherwise-unreadable original text of palimpsests, or the insides of scrolls too brittle to unroll? What other discoveries might be unpredictable right now? For example, some new development might tell us two things were made in the same place and time, leading to discovery by inference, or something. Originals might prove valuable in ways not yet known.