Real preservation happens in private libraries and resale after the owner's death. Academic libraries are already electronic - no shelves
Academic libraries should preserve knowledge in case modern civilization collapses back to an Iron Age. 'Electronic journals' won't help.pic.twitter.com/YusqTuxgCG
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Also real preservation of knowledge is filtering, Lindy: let the book noise die out or the whole thing becomes useless
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I love the idea of Chinese scribes 500yrs hence struggling to decode fragments of postmodern scholarship
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I thought a lot about life time of hard disks and a digital dark age. Is anyone working on these problems though?
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something I've thought about a lot. If the power goes and takes any real amount of time to restore, everything's gone.
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Back to paper?
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But doesn't paper degrade after enough time?
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