Living Canon: Web or Word?

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Eric Doehne
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:59:19 -0800

Here are a couple of links to an interesting Metropolis article about
the loss of history and problems with digital continuity. FDRs
initial statement on the start of US involvement in WWII was:
Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world
history,... Later he changed it to infamy. The cover illustration
from Stewart Brands book How Buildings Learn is featured as well.

As Photoshop and Word solidify as defacto standards, they are
becoming better at saving the evolution of documents. Will this
ability become the default for the Living Canon? Or, will Web
standards predominate?

Abstract: When information was manually recorded on paper, _the
draft_ was a document with its own history inscribed upon it. But
digital tools threaten to obliterate this history, as NICK BOURBAKIS
discovers, although new software is helping to preserve the evolution
of documents and designs.

http://www.metropolismag.com/new/content/tech/fe98wor.htm
http://www.metropolismag.com/new/content/tech/fe98pwor.htm

-Eric

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Eric Doehne
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