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classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:34 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Rescued documentation issues
At 4:34 PM -0700 10/26/09, Rich Alderson wrote:
Never discard the paper just because you have
converted the information
content to an electronic or chemical form. If you don't have room for
it, pass it on to the next individual who also cares about these
things.
This is advice to live by, and I do just that. That is why I am
involved with the CBHRC. Our society is moving away from storing
knowledge in easy to preserve (and freely share) forms. I fear that
future generations will realize what a mistake this is.
Zane
As I said in my original email, there are people who are working on those problems.
It behooves all of us to work closely with them. They tend to be museums and libraries.
Sometimes they don't LOOK like museums and libraries as we've come to know them,
but that's because the challenge has become something different than when we just
wondered where to stack all the books. But they are still working on the core problem:
how do We (the societal We) ensure that we don't forget what we know. -- Ian