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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I'm not saying that digital storage is a perfect solution, all I'm saying is that it's better than paper. You give examples of the difficulty of maintaining digital information that you've had, because of device incompatibilities over the last 20 years. But think of trying to maintain paper copies of information at a time when printing was still a new technology. I'd say it would be well nigh impossible for a private individual to do. The very fact that you can now maintain some personally created digital information is a great leap forward.
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I agree with you more than I led on or I wouldn't be here. When I gave the analogy of this book it was that I wished e-anything to last as long as their physical counterparts. There is no way in the actual state of e-bab
ble (pun intended) that things will last. We will need a movement no less than worldwidly revolutionnary to stabilize several standards. There is no support media that will stand data through time superior to paper yet. The only promise is to continually retransfer data ad infinitum with reinterpretations as languages are replaced. Find an error in that process!
If to preserve a book you were to take a text, rewrite it to reprint it, and scrap the original it would feel just the same as this e-promise. No security of transmission and what about the compound of human error?