It is this denial of the past that casts a
shadow over the future. Books have been with us since the dawn
of civilization, millennia ago. In many ways, books constitute
our civilization. Their traits are its traits: resilience,
adaptation, flexibility, self re-invention, wealth,
communication. We would do well to accept that our most
familiar artifacts - books - will never cease to amaze us.
The Affair of the Vanishing Content
By: Sam Vaknin
http://www.archive.org/
"Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such
rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm.
Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed
it may have become too amnesiac already to notice the problem
properly."
(Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation )
Thousands of articles and essays posted by hundreds of authors
were lost forever when themestream.com surprisingly shut its
virtual gates. A sizable portion of the 1960 census, recorded
on UNIVAC II-A tapes, is now inaccessible. Web hosts crash
daily, erasing in the process valuable content.
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