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As m0smith
says, the Church has actually been involved in computers for
decades and developed many ingenuitive techniques for storing and
managing data (membership records, compressing the scriptures onto a floppy
disk, etc.).
And being slow to change is, in general, not a good
thing. If every group did that, then even good changes wouldn't happen --
no one would try new things until lots of others had, which no one
else would.
Jake
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:37
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Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Cool Family History
technology coming soon
On 10/14/05, Alan
Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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I think figuring out the specifics of the interface is the easy
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part. The more difficult issue, and the one that is going to take
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some time, is data protection/privacy.
This is why I think its a good
thing (in the case of the church, or
*any* agency controlling sensitive
data) that the church takes forever
to change. I mean, look at
how long it took them to get into
computers at all. But when
they did, they didn't have to worry about
the Y2K bug because they took
the time to do it right.
--
Alan
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Although your idea is correct, the example is flawed.
The Church had lots of COBOL boxes and spent considerable effort on Y2K.
That not withstanding, you are correct in saying that it is a good
thing the church in not blown by every technological wind.
--
I am, truly and sincerely,
your friend and
well-wisher,
m0smith
http://www.ferociousflirting.com
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