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Re: [ARSCLIST] When you die...
DAMN Steve ! Your mind can work in strange ways sometimes.
Roger
"Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But...
Consider the OTHER possibility...!
What happens if NOBODY elects to keep and preserve a copy of a given
phonorecord, each owner thereof assuming "Well, somebody else will
keep a copy...!" Then, "down the road a piece," someone happens to
want a copy...either from some project or simply to hear it...! The
party starts searching...and discovers that, apparently, NO copies
of the recording have been preserved...either as artifacts, or as
digital/analog copies of the sonic content...! Net result...no one
will ever again know what that recording actually sounded like...?!
I.e., one part of history is forever lost.
Agreed that once the last of us strange folks who own and preserve
ancient phonorecords because we enjoy listening to the contents
thereof finally shuffle off this mortal coil, there may be no
logical reason to preserve the phonorecord artifacts...BUT...
there may well be future researchers/wothaveya that will want to
know exactly what Grey Gull 1234(a) sounded like...for a variety
of reasons...! Further, there may be others who want to know
what it LOOKED like...FELT like...possibly even SMELLED like...?!
Until we finally arrive at a technological point where digital
copies of solid objects can be saved as (HUGE!) files and
reliably reproduced therefrom, it will remain necessary to
preserve at least ONE copy of each such artifact...
After all, were it possible to preserve a digital copy of the
U.S. Capitol, does that mean the original could/should be
destroyed and replaced by a Wal-Mart...?!
Steven C. Barr
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