That's down right poetic Chris. I like that! Google "destroyed photographs" and you will find a lot of stuff that pertains to loss and the sun going out. AZ Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book 5ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] RE: [Fwd: Photography Half-Life (Decay Rate) Changes] > From: Chris <cjrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, June 26, 2009 3:34 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Prints extract themselves all else requires power. Apart from light.... > (There is no Sun in the sky any more...) > Chris > http://www.chrisspages.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet > Sent: 26 June 2009 15:10 > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Photography Half-Life (Decay Rate) Changes] > On Fri, June 26, 2009 08:50, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Once data is digital it WILL live forever. > > > > I see no reason why data storage couldn't expand to "infinite" capacity > > soon - and with it the means of extracting itself. Advancing search > > engine technology will be recognized as vital to existence and forever > > be refined. > We already have PDF and DOC files being presented as HTML by Google, for > example; something similar could be done for image formats, if we outgrow > JPEG and PNG. > > Most likely, so called "dark energy" or "dark matter," the stuff that > > makes up most of the Known Universe AKA "The Big Attic in the Sky," is > > stored data. Been saying this for years :-} > And "computronium", sure! > > > > Here's a neat story about mining old picture data: > > > > http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/LOIRP/ > And what that's showing us is how close we came to losing some rather > major data from a big project. Now imagine the loss risks for more minor > stuff! > The key point about digital archives is that they really need to be > well-curated; they do NOT thrive on a program of benign neglect. > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
