On Wed, 26 May 2004 15:26:55 +0000 (UTC), Tim Tyler 
wrote:


>Paper's a rather crummy long-term storage medium - not least because 
>photocopying is pretty low fidelity.
>

Strange -- people are still reading books written 500 years ago.
People are even trying to read scrolls written two thousand years ago
(were the Dead Sea Scrolls written on a paper-type substrate?) In any
event, paper does date back 2000 years and material in excess of 1000
years is certainly readable.

The value of paper is that you don't have to copy it, you just
preserve it.

Try that with digital!  Put any form of digital recording you want
into a sealed jar, hide it, and see what remains readable in the year
3000!
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