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There are some disturbing thoughts that arise from this. For example, what if in a thousand years from now, all information about this century is forgotten, bec
by harshpotatoes 15y ago
There are some disturbing thoughts that arise from this. For example, what if in a thousand years from now, all information about this century is forgotten, because it was written in a digital format which can no longer be read. Or some sort of technological apocalypse occurs, and there are no non-digital sources to be read.
- r00fus 15y agoA related concern: 1984-style "party" that views any historical content as a threat to it's existence easily censors and edits both non-fiction and fiction literature to promote itself. With paper printing and thousands of independent copies, this becomes difficult. With digital copies, especially in an iTunes-match or Amazon Digital Locker scenario, this becomes trivial. If you think this is paranoid, watch the latest moves that DHS and TSA are making and combine them with SOPA for chilling effect. The digitization of books is, to me, like the digitization of voting - appealing, but very dangerous and possibly not worth the societal dangers that come with it.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoYou've hit on one of my biggest secret fears. Heck, right now I have information on 5.25" floppies that can only be read by an Apple ][, old SyQuest and Zip disks that need to be transferred before they can be read, and probably somewhere, a data cassette or two. Information that requires special equipment to read is a dangerous thing.
- tybris 15y agoWhat if our entire view of history today is misguided or very much incomplete because of similar events that occurred in the past when there was hardly any redundancy of information?