Now here is a related question, what percentage of ancient records remain available today?
Another, what is the difference between a written record in a language no one knows, and a computer record in an unknown format? And another, where is all that information that was lost in the year 2000 change over (remember that non-problem)? And yet another, what is the difference between a destroyed piece of paper and a destroyed CD. In fact, commercial, and governmental hard drives are regularly backed up. When new larger ones replace older smaller ones most often they just copy the data onto the new one. When old file cabinets are replaced, quite often the old files are just dumped into boxes and put into damp basements to be forgotten. Which files are more likely to be preserved? Scare mongers will ever be amongst us. Critical data well be preserved. Critical data that was not perceived as critical will be lost. I consider this whole can of worms to be just another Chicken Little Syndrome. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 2:26 PM Subject: OT: The end of history > Hi, > > there's an article in today's "Independent" which discusses the > problems of long-term digital storage, a thread which pops up here > with some regularity: > http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=420334 > > Cheers, > > Bob >
