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I imagine these monks would be horrified at the rate that we produce frivolous text today. We have notes like these scribbled all over our social networks. Som
by jtsnow 13y ago
I imagine these monks would be horrified at the rate that we produce frivolous text today.
We have notes like these scribbled all over our social networks. Some are entertaining, but I wonder how much of our "written" word will be deemed fit to preserve for reasons other than data analysis.
- fortepianissimo 13y agoLots of what they produced can be said to be frivolous too - just produced at a much slower rate.
- jordan0day 13y agoI guess there's probably lots of various standards for "frivolous", but it's not like they were just firing off quick forum replies.
- pavel_lishin 13y agoThey might be horrified until they realize that copying a book is as easy as Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V. Then they'd be ecstatic.
- mdda 13y agoBut the cost (in human life, if not money) of re-transcription of the text was itself a filter for getting rid of the frivolous.
- EzGraphs 13y agoI have often thought of that - and considered writing a time travel story that included an ancient ending up in a modern grocery store or some such place and be paralyzed while meticulously reading each label (out loud). One of these days...
- vijayr 13y agoImagine a tool, that can write the biography of any person, simply by going through the truckload of data that we generate. -- Dating/Relationship stuff from FB status -- Spending habits from credit card data/Mint/Amazon etc -- Professional/Career data from linkedin etc etc And so on. Granted, it would be boring for most people. But it is possible to do it. This is fascinating and disgusting, at the same time :(