1 Feb
2009
1 Feb
'09
1:14 p.m.
> 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
And I'll probably still be making little holes in 1" wide strips of paper
....
> 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?
Or as I'm fonf of pointing out, if you hand me a glass plate photographic
negaticve, I can still make a print from it, even though said negative
could be 100 years old. Will anybody be ale to read digital camera memory
cards in 100 years time?
-tony