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It is truely tragic that these texts have been lost to history ... but we need to be really careful before thinking simply digitizing stores things forever - it doesn't ... yet. Who owns it/the hardware it is sotred on? who is worrying about filtering our data corruption over time? How public is the storage?
The life of disk storage is relatively short - the amount of data corruption with data transfer is relatively high - distributed systems are still very new ... paper is still a far more effective storage medium than digital ... ther are lots of outstanding questions --- digitization is not yet a panacea ...
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