Thread: Seriousness eBooks: a danger to posterity?
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Old 04-17-2009, 03:35 PM   #37
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Do we loose all books? If an alien race visited our extinct world 2000 years from now... Won't they find any written material about us past a certain date? Will the year we enter in a full ebook format society be known as... The dark age? If I do a trip to a place without electricity, will that equate to no reading possibility?
This is a premise in Charles Stross' Glasshouse were future humans have a black hole in their knowledge about human hostory because of DRM. For the time period were DRM did not was used they have full knowledge since it is easy to preserve data electronically by format shifting it regularly.
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