OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
Mr. Federman, who thinks often about how societies "remember," sees digital photography as a disaster for historians. People delete pictures from their cameras' memory cards. Hard drives crash. PCs end up in the dump, photos still on board. And CDs full of pictures will become unreadable when their surfaces deteriorate (you heard that right--CDs are incredibly unstable). With all that, says Mr. Federman, we're on the verge of losing billions of pictures. "We will not have a record of the individual stories that are told by families from one generation to another through pictures," Mr. Federman says. "That is a wealth of human history that will simply be lost."
Something to think about with all the discussion of pictures of ancestors on this blog.
posted by Russell Snow at
8:44:00 PM
3 Comments:
If Blogger ever crashes its servers or just decides to pack it in, we would lose it all. Unless, of course, someone is archiving all these posts.
But, whomever owns the origonals could make copies the old fashioned way...
Perhaps the people with the wonderful suggestions should take on the project of printing out the whole Blog into a scrapbook.
For me, I figure it will all last until I am gone, and then it will not matter to me. Unless BlogSpot shuts down...
Maybe we could back up the Blog posts to DVD's.
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