Back in the day when all we had was crappy mapquest, I used to get paper maps from AAA for road trips, which I saved. Also had a road atlas. Then google maps and GPS got good enough that one day I looked at my shoebox of maps and atlas and went “why do I have this crap?”...
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Most of these maps were in great condition btw, and real works of cartographic art. They were just... obsolete.
So one day I just tossed the lot. I’m not sentimental.
Here’s the thing... lately I’ve been getting that same sense from my collection of books. Both paper and ebook.
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I'm taking a Bayesian attitude towards future Carrington events...
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Yeah, seems that, given solar storms of sufficient magnitude, arouras can appear in *Baltimore* and electrical cables can be overloaded; the telegraph system of 1859 was clicking for hours after being unplugged; happens every so often, which is reassuring:

