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Yes, I was surprised that it got no mention in the article. Still, it isn't a great idea to rely too much on any one source for all of this information. I do
by ricree 18y ago
Yes, I was surprised that it got no mention in the article. Still, it isn't a great idea to rely too much on any one source for all of this information. I do think that there is a very real problem caused by the lack of hard copies for most of our data. A lot of what we know about history comes to us in the form of written records, especially things such as letters or private journals. Computer communication works great at the time of use, but I do think that the general public needs to be more aware of the need to create permanent hard copies of anything that they might want to be saved for the future.
- twopoint718 18y agoCouldn't agree more. I think there are some fascinating areas for research here. I was able to find this: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/research.html http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/research.html which is talking about how we can preserve digital documents for the future by creating a well-specified emulator of current software. But short of dumping data to a machine-readable but paper-based (or microfilm) format, I don't think there are any really long-lasting options out there.