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Re: [ARSCLIST] Format conundrum
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, andy kolovos wrote:
> I've played around with a sci-fi story about this kind of thing. I
> imagine a future where there are no more computers, but reams and reams
> of printed code spat out in the last days before the machines stopped.
> In the far-flung days long after the cataclysm, a special group of
> scholars, the digital-crypto-paleographers, have been trained using the
> Rosetta stone of the period (a stack of accidentally preserved "For
> Dummies" books) to draw meaning from these lines and lines of digits.
Your statements reminded me of some of the content of the presentation I
give when I am asked for a one hour "everything you need to know about audio
preservation" lecture. On one overhead I have a picture of some
hieroglyphs, which I labeled, "This is your information." The other is a
picture of the Rosetta stone, labeled, "This is your application." My
point being, neither are written in stone and how both are mutually
dependant.
Karl