28 Aug
2011
28 Aug
'11
7:52 p.m.
On 28/08/11 9:51 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
You know, I worry less about obscure formats than I do
the total
loss/editing of history on the web. Information being suddenly
"reclassified" by governments,
...and information being replaced by fabrications, without notice, and
making it personally dangerous to question this...
embarrassing content being deleted or
ambitious lawyers getting whole websites wiped from existence.
Very 1984-ish.
At least Orwell left us a road map to our present.
The ironic flipside to this, of course, is that everything _is_ being
comprehensively archived and data mined (including this thread), but in
secret, inaccessible places, by those who mean us no good.
--Toby
We're writing the history of our civilization in sand.
--Chuck