So in the electronic age where knowledge, photos and information can be copied millions of times it gives us a dangerous illusion of permanence when the creeping digitilisation of our knowledge makes its future increasingly precarious. Civilisations are not on eternal upward paths and gyrate haphazardly. If that little electonic switch is flipped then so much knowledge will evaporate.
We must maintain written copies that can be preseverd without the requirement of electricity. Even preserving the books, careful duplication of digital documents will we still leave enough of civilisation? Our creativity, our ideas, our videos, our blogs, our podcasts all will be gone perhaps our music too.
So with buildings that won't last, books that are just in electronic format, paintings that are too introverted and child like what will the future think of us or know of us as they admire Monet, read the Greeks? Perhaps not much.
If they do manage to turn on a computer how will they decipher it? The people I go to seem to need books, help pages, and the internet to understand anything what of those of the future? Perhaps they will hate us for the layers of confusion that surround our culture and all these things make it more inaccessible for the future. If we struggle to understand computers what of future man?
Perhaps we will just leave huge holes in the ground and pollution in the sea, I hope not.
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