catgate Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 It's a black day for information, but a massive pay day for M$.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main....dldarkage05.xmlFarewell National Archive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 You can't beat having notches on your gun to keep a tally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Another big brother on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 You can't beat having notches on your gun to keep a tally!The unsophisticated stone age folk recorded their important stuff on rock using antler picks. The Egyptians used metal tools and carved on monuments and tombs. They sent each other notes on clay tablets. Some of these things have survived, as have ancient scrolls and papyri. There are a good number of manuscripts and early books still in existance. Could there be a period of historical missing link looming? The NHS IT debacle suggests it could happen so easily. Ignorance in action is a fearsome thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 You can't beat having notches on your gun to keep a tally!The unsophisticated stone age folk recorded their important stuff on rock using antler picks. The Egyptians used metal tools and carved on monuments and tombs. They sent each other notes on clay tablets. Some of these things have survived, as have ancient scrolls and papyri. There are a good number of manuscripts and early books still in existance. Could there be a period of historical missing link looming? The NHS IT debacle suggests it could happen so easily. Ignorance in action is a fearsome thing.I don't really think that it's feasible to go back to these methods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 I don't really think that it's feasible to go back to these methods.You are quite correct. What I was attempting to point out was that as we have become more sophisticated and "advanced" we have much more information. So much so that it has become so plentiful that we are careless with it. I do not suppose any of the ancients had any intention of leaving "knowledge" for posterity but that is what they did. We can now record all our knowledge as magnetic impulses on bits of plastic(*) and it has all become very ephemeral. The more that man becomes "civilised" the more impermanent his records seem to become.(*) I can record mine on the back of a postage stamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 I don't really think that it's feasible to go back to these methods.You are quite correct. What I was attempting to point out was that as we have become more sophisticated and "advanced" we have much more information. So much so that it has become so plentiful that we are careless with it. I do not suppose any of the ancients had any intention of leaving "knowledge" for posterity but that is what they did. We can now record all our knowledge as magnetic impulses on bits of plastic(*) and it has all become very ephemeral. The more that man becomes "civilised" the more impermanent his records seem to become.(*) I can record mine on the back of a postage stamp.A large one or a small one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Do you lick it before or after your scribbling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Do you lick it before or after your scribbling? :DI always buy the self adhesive ones now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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