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Originally Posted by TheSFReader
One entirely missing point in this discussion is "Legacy" : What will we leave to our great^10 grand-children if everything is "encoded" ? What will they be able to recover from our culture ? Digital preservation and Bit Rot is already problematic in our own lifespans, but with the added DRM hurdle, we will only leave them random "bits" of information, with nothing else...
If it all continues, our descendants will be left with no "Giants" to stand on the shoulders, but only crumbling sand ... ( Standing on the shoulders of giants) |
As all preservation methods are looked back on as crude, perhaps to focus on building a time machine to go back and get the original in whatever form is desired.
