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Originally Posted by jswinden
Nah, still plenty of clay tablets written 6500 years ago that would be around. It is strange that we went from clay tablets which can last thousands of years, to vellum and papyrus and other organic materials that deteriorate rather quickly (a few centuries), to digital medium that gets outdated within a few years. You would be hard pressed to find many floppy diskettes with intact data from the 1970s and 1980s, or VHS/Beta tapes that are in great shape. Even DVDs will lose data over the years. And now we have cyberspace books that can be saved on various memory types, but 20 years from now those memory types will possibly be obsolete. It looks like we are constantly choosing book mediums on which to record our written words that are progressively shorter lived. Maybe in the future we will return to an aural/oral culture where words reside only in our brains, like they did pre-history.
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Loved this comment Jack - had to share it with my wife!