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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
Early in the process? Huge amounts of information are already held exclusively in a digital format - including financial data, for example - for which prevention of corruption (e.g. storage with non-repudiation features), disaster tolerance and recovery, archiving and back-up of many flavours &c. &c. are a well understood science.
Information that is published digitally is particularly unlikely to be lost (because it is held in so many places in such a variety of formats).
I can only think that his concern over the fragility of information is down to ignorance of IT.
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Maybe, not ignorance of IT, but a common sense fear that by accident, bad weather, war, etc... If the GRID in your area goes down... No Internet, NO Data...
Energy is a precious thing that too many people take for granted... pehaps keeping some data as hard copy is not such a bad idea.... Books last hundereds of years.... Computers and Main Frames.... not so sure...