Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> Lemme explain: almost all paper used in books today is made from trees and
> contains a certain amount of an acid which English name escapes me at the
> moment. Thanks to this, the paper will selfdestruct in about a hundred
> years. To quote the Swedish physist-novelist Peter Nilson, "in 2100 they'll
> wonder why people ceased to write books in 1870".
There was a bad period there (and I have lost books to it) but now acid-free
paper is quite common. <plug>The Lojban reference grammar is printed on it.
</plug>
> In addition, diskettes only last a few years, while most other digital media
> last a few decades. In the future the 1900s will probably be considered a
> Dark Age ...
We don't really know how long CDs will last. But it hardly matters: the point
is that whatever is in active use will get copied and transcribed over and over.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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