Re: The next big thing in technology?

Hi,

I think, today, for most information there is no optimal medium - not electronic nor BOOK:

What would be the advantage for future generations to have all the knowledge from the past on *paper*? It is simply impossible to search for the information they will need. It is practically impossible to make backups - or do you really want to copy 1.000.000.000.000 pages of paper? (And of course you do need some backups because paper burns very good! ;-) Making a copy decreases the quality significantly. You cannot easily update the information you stored. You need thousands of rooms to store the paper. ...

The one and only solution for this is to store the information electronically and to convert it every - lets say 20-30 years - so that they are readable (and indexable) by the technology that is up-to-date at that moment. Of course, this is expensive (hardware and software-formats change). But it is less expensive than to solve the problems you have with paper!

Ciao,
Ingo


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