31 Jan
2009
31 Jan
'09
6:50 p.m.
On 31 Jan 2009 at 20:18, Jim Leonard wrote:
Don't bet on it. Blu-Ray is the last
consumer-deliverable physical
media, which means it is the last consumer archival media. The entire
entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving
toward digital distribution. There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray.
In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving.
I fully expect to be archiving exclusively to hard disks in 10 years and
SSDs in 15. Eventually in 25 years all storage (flash/ssd/hard
disks/tape/BD-R/DVD-R/etc.) will converge into a single technology.
Why do I get this feeling that we're writing our history in
quicksand?
Letters the young Mozart exchanged with his sister are still extant
to give us a unique peek into the composer's mind. Will we have the
emails of a modern Mozart to similarly peruse in the future?
We already have the phenomeon of mainstream media "correcting" their
online content leaving no trace of error behind. No more "Dewey
beats Truman" headlines...
Sigh,
Chuck