Re: Universal Translator need

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Stewart Brand
Wed, 15 Oct 97 14:58:24 PDT


At 10:23 AM -0800 9/1/97, Jaron Lanier wrote:
>The massiveness of the digital archival puzzle will increase at
>an ever greater rate-

That's the trend (and associated hopelessness) that is our job to begin to
reverse.

In a few years people should feel that the digital continuity situation is
gradually getting better and is on the way toward being acceptable, if
never really fixed.

How can you invest in a future which you know is structurally incapable of
keeping faith with its past?