Re: RE: durable digital in current technology-->stewardship
[ Home ][ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Stewart Brand
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:35:35 -0700
At 12:03 PM -0400 4/20/98, Ken Finkel wrote:
> It seems we have a lot to learn from not only the ancients, but the
>thousands (?) of mostly small and fragile organizations that preserve
>millions of documents that have long ago fallen off society's radar
>screen.
Yeh, the Net seems to enhance distributed preservation---both by empowering
many more to do it, and to make their archives, hordes, and caches
traceable and even searchable remotely.
Preservation goes fractal.
Who knows which hobby tribe will be the next Irish to save civilization?