Comments on: More on the Amazon “Kindle” http://www.randem.net/blog/2007/11/28/more-on-the-amazon-kindle/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:52:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Trapper Markelz http://www.randem.net/blog/2007/11/28/more-on-the-amazon-kindle/#comment-118 Trapper Markelz Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:12:29 +0000 http://www.randem.net/blog/2007/11/28/more-on-the-amazon-kindle/#comment-118 You should do a tech talk on the kindle :) What I think is interesting is Charles Stross in his fiction talks about this century as the Dark Ages because in the future, all of our content will be stored on magnetic media which degrades over a few decades. So in the future, societies will no more about us before the "digital" age than during it... once 3d crystal storage is perfected, the data will be safe forever... but if we go completely e-book right now using magnetic/solid state electronic storage, all of our knowledge will be lost... at least that which isn't in a condition to transition to new, more long term storage types. Anything on records will be playable for ever... tapes, CDs, MP3s on flash drives... will be lost. So for now... keep the paper and physical media... until we have a safe place to put this stuff! :) You should do a tech talk on the kindle :)

What I think is interesting is Charles Stross in his fiction talks about this century as the Dark Ages because in the future, all of our content will be stored on magnetic media which degrades over a few decades. So in the future, societies will no more about us before the “digital” age than during it… once 3d crystal storage is perfected, the data will be safe forever… but if we go completely e-book right now using magnetic/solid state electronic storage, all of our knowledge will be lost… at least that which isn’t in a condition to transition to new, more long term storage types. Anything on records will be playable for ever… tapes, CDs, MP3s on flash drives… will be lost.

So for now… keep the paper and physical media… until we have a safe place to put this stuff! :)

]]> By: Matthew Medlen http://www.randem.net/blog/2007/11/28/more-on-the-amazon-kindle/#comment-116 Matthew Medlen Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:30:35 +0000 http://www.randem.net/blog/2007/11/28/more-on-the-amazon-kindle/#comment-116 Well said, now will you get off my screen so I can buy one. O wait didn't I read that this device allows the user to read blogs from it as well, so I could be reading @Randem right now from my Kindle. NOT! "Give me the IPhone or give me paperbacks!" Well said, now will you get off my screen so I can buy one. O wait didn’t I read that this device allows the user to read blogs from it as well, so I could be reading @Randem right now from my Kindle. NOT! “Give me the IPhone or give me paperbacks!”

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