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Originally Posted by hidari
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...
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Sure, bad weather can take out the facilities to
access information from some places - and it is a real problem for all sorts of things that we need to be aware of as we depend more on a digital infrastructure.
The author of this article was talking, as I understood him, about a concern for digital information being lost completely - not temporarily losing access to it. It is this concern that seems to me to be misplaced. We trust paper because it has been around for a long time, but digital information is easier to store and protect in the long term.