Re: the passing of a champion

From: Ed Prochak <edprochak_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:02:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <9efba7a7-0b21-464e-b2e2-6f0c392d3a57_at_x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>


On Jul 4, 10:23 pm, Frank Hamersley <terabitemigh..._at_bigpond.com> wrote:
> Keith H Duggar wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > The WWW has turned
> > what is typically already open information into closed informa-
> > tion through sheer lack of intelligence and insight into infor-
> > mation science and has forced what could have been simple quer-
> > ies in a straight-forward language into massive amounts of ran-
> > dom guesswork.
>
> Just playing Devils avocate ... is this lossiness and non determinism
> any different to the evolution/collation over the past several thousand
> (or more) years of the entire corpus of knowlege (at least that part
> that is generally accepted as correct).
>
> That said, given we do have better repositories than (say) the scrolls
> in Carthage, I feel we should be obliged to resist the disorder
> described by Erik.
>
> Frank.

Do we have better repositories? When our electronics based civilization falls, will the next be able to "read our texts"?

Ed

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