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This article was very interesting. I've never really thought about all the potential problems of the "brave new world" of completely digitized media. Another one which was not really brought out in the article is how easy it will be to alter records in the future when there is no hard copy. Historians can usually tell if a book or other printed source has been forged or altered after the fact but how easy will it be for people to silently alter computer files and even video records of events when the only copies exist online. Such tampering may be virtually undetectable to future readers.

As the article points out there are many benefits to the digitizing of information but we should be aware of and cautious of the risks of adapting this strategy too completely.
Posted by: Ivystung   Posted on: 07/03/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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All of this Babble as an excuse to rant  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
Did you even read the article?  Michael Kelly | 07/02/07
Read until I fell asleep  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
It was very good reading, and points out a lot of the problems of  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
A fancifull read, nothing more  John Zern | 07/02/07
Back up, back up, back up  LordLiverpool | 07/03/07
I agree 100% !  John Zern | 07/03/07
Best Practice; Move to New Media Types Regularly  dumptux | 07/03/07
Formats Should Worry You  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
The Issue Is Documented Open Standards  dumptux | 07/03/07
Not Really.  osreinstall | 07/03/07
Yes, Really  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Never had a proprietary format problem.  osreinstall | 07/04/07
Microsoft Office is Only The Start  dumptux | 07/03/07
Standards can limit the immediate future  Patanjali | 07/03/07
Job getting you down ?  JeremyAllison | 07/03/07
How do you know?  Ole Man | 07/08/07
Histroy will always be the story told by  jacarter3 | 07/02/07
You've Never Studied "Lower Criticism", Have You?  dumptux | 07/03/07
Message has been deleted.  tracy anne | 07/04/07
Off Topic AND Off Kilter  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Lower and Lowest;)  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Did you learn your History from Cartoons?  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Well, we will certainly have more archived from the current generation than  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
Emulators and abandonware  scott1329 | 07/03/07
Borland Museum  tct | 07/03/07
Good article  Ivystung | 07/03/07
Not Necessarily So  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
They buried another...  Narg | 07/03/07
Birth, Marriage & Death Records (UK)  john.foggitt@... | 07/03/07
Which Reminds Me:  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Cemetery 2.0  zmelkin | 07/03/07
Has a man ever been on the moon?  Mantvis | 07/09/07

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