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Old 04-16-2009, 03:21 AM   #24
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what if ebooks will replace completely the pbooks? What if for some reason, in a post apocalyptic scenario, we can't produce electricity and recharge our computers and ereaders?
In that situation the survivors will have more pressing problems. I suspect that by the time they have worked out the basic food clothes and shelter stuff the great majority of physical books printed in the last 20 years will also have rotted to nothing - using cheap ink on acidic paper will do that all by itself.

On a global scale people have tried to address this. There are a lot of projects ranging from "time vaults" installed as part of new building dedications to people building pyramids full of noble metal tablets. None, so far as I know, regard paper as a suitable means to store knowledge for more than a century or so.
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