I agree and disagree. I still have records, tapes and old CD's that I still use. I also still ahve old paper letters from penpals of years ago.
Meduim does change but I think it will always be possible to recreate the tools on which to use old medium. On 21 Sep, 15:58, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > “… Perhaps, in the future, it will be standard > procedure to leave a video biography before one dies such that people > can write an 'extended epitaph' and have their own say that others > can > refer to….” – Pat [from a different thread] > > One of the big technological problems here is that ANY specific > technology used for such a video will be obsolete within a decade and/ > or the media itself will decay within a similar time span. Paper and > ink and paintings can and have lasted thousands of years. Stone and > metal messages exist from similar epochs. I remember playing cylinder > records on a Victrola type player. (How many still have 78 records?) > Also, music from a player of metal disks and a player piano. A few > original photos exist, fewer still from the era of the Polaroid > camera. And, who still has information stored on punch cards? What > about text from a DOS operation system computer? 8-track tape player? > Tape cassette player and cassettes? How about just a 10 year old CD? > Heck, what about emails from 8 years ago? > > People used to save personal letters and many still exist centuries > later, at least from ‘famous’ people. This seldom is the case for > emails, let alone phone calls or other recorded media. We have become > a culture of not only very short attention spans but of even shorter > historical memories. > > How say you? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
