Until they change the format and it become unreadable like my wordstar copies of our traditional materials from the 1980s.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Stennett Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 2:58 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Bit Rot part II It's called World Cat (www.worldcat.org) and claims to catalog every book in print in the world. Other databases allow one to search for published research (can be restricted to peer-reviewed). Then, your friendly neighborhood librarian (knowledge custodian?) can help you obtain print copies of whatever is not yet available online. That's about as close to the Star Trek model as we've come so far. But perhaps a few more additions and tweaks to the software will allow us to approximate the Enterprise computer (preferably with HoloDeck) in the not too distant future ;) Barry On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Ray Harrell wrote: > I've always preferred the Star Trek model with a space ship with all > of the > published data in existence available for the universe of the crew > to study > for their own enlightenment and the sustenance of the ship. Not a > bad > model. Always have people to keep up the archive in the ship's > computer. > > REH _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
