The tao of tech
I don’t want to worry you, but ��� ��� a strange technological revolution has happened. None of us have noticed, even though it is happening right in front of our eyes. It is hiding in plain sight. Here are the clues. Yesterday my laptop’s Internet Explorer started to have a wobble. It kept crashing, which…
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Lydia
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Feb 25, 2015 04:26AM
You probably heard the "expert" comments on the radio a day or two ago - warning us that we should go back to paper, as our various digital formats will all become obsolete. The floppy disk and the iPod were cited as examples. I know I've been caught in such traps.
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It's an interesting thought, isn't it? Since digital cameras took over, almost all of my photographs are stored digitally. If we had no way of accessing those photos they would be lost forever.That gives us the bizarre situation where we are taking more photographs than ever before but there is a chance that they could all be lost. It could be the same with books, legal documents, financial information.
It is also a lucrative marketing opportunity. I have bought some movies several times over - a VHS version, then DVD, then Blu-ray. Add in the Director's cut and the extended version and it's not hard to get four or five different versions of the same thing.
It's an odd world that we live in, sometimes!
