Read half the article and not a single cogent argument presented besides some highly emotional statements: - Wills are considered essential documents, particul

Read half the article and not a single cogent argument presented besides some highly emotional statements: - Wills are considered essential documents, particularly for social historians and genealogists, as they capture what people considered important at the time and reveal unknown family links. Digital copies preserve this, so this is a non-issue - amid growing concern at the fragility of digital archives, after a cyber-attack on the British Library left the online catalogue and digitised documents unavailable to users since late October. Were these documents lost? Are wills going to be stored in the same centralized-only way? Are non-digitized documents more available because the cost of accessing them is much higher than a few clicks in a browser even if the browser is down for a month in X year? Paper isn't immortal either, how do you square it with those concerns? The WhatsApp example is just not at all relevant in this context > Hardware goes out of date and so it might not be available in the future to recall the scanned documents, Is there not a trivial solution to address this concern that a huge number of people employed in their daily lives? Than the other half isn't much better with repeating nonsense about data loss and people being forgotten while the opposite is true given that much easier access increases the chances of discovering the part of some future Mary Seacole > The human connection of handling the original wills and “the feel of the old rag-based pulp paper” would be lost too, he said. Just preserve a bunch of stacks of that old paper you can hug while reading the wills to keep the connection alive > wills are “absolutely vital” social-historical documents > highlighted the emotional impact of seeing an original signature on a historic will for a family member. You can see the signature in the image and have the same reaction, you know, people cry watching movies