G+_George Kozi Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Originally shared by George Kozi Passing thought. The Rosetta stone, the obelisks, the papyri and the Babylonian clay tablets were written upon thousands of years ago. The information the authors put on them is still there, unchanged, in the 1.0 version. Today we store our information on devices that have a limited lifespan and are fragile. Not only that, but the information stored needs machines to retrieve it and show it to us. If you look at a hard drive that contains all the information in the world, you only see a metal thing. In order to preserve it "long term", the information on our modern storage devices also needs careful maintenance. In the old age, long term meant just that, In the modern age, long term means a few years. So... have we made progress? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Curt Steege Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Sure, any single copy of digital information has little chance of surviving any length of time, but we can make mass copies of that information, giving it a better chance to survive. Instead of survival through toughness, it's survival through numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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