8 Aug
2012
8 Aug
'12
2:12 p.m.
They ae, but as I said elsewhere, if you don't
have them you have little
more than a film set prop.
...that can be studied in extreme detail for many years, thanks to the
original parts still being there.
Nobody can tell what will be important in years to come. Things we see
as mundane today may be very important in the future. We have seen
this before. In classic-era archaeology, everyone wanted to study how
the kings and emperors lived, with only a passing interest in how all
the regular people got along. But then the unthinkable happened, and
now everyone wants to what those regular people ate, smoked, built,
drank, played, shat, painted, and learned.
But many of those classic-era archaeologists trashed the village sites
so they could get to the temples.
Generally you will be left with the carcass of the
machine, which is all you
have if you don't use the machine. In many cases the use of the machine
means that it will be better preserved as the mechanical parts will be oiled
and lubricated...
Yeah, tell that to the hard disk people. Or the printer people.
Anyone have a 1416 print chain?
--
Will