Talk:Digital Revolution/Archive 1

Archive 1

"Living in the present

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"For those living in the present" ? That seems a little awkward.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.164.81.214 (talk • contribs) 08:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Revised "Concerns" per suggestion

I removed the "in the present" line from the "Concerns" section and threw together a somewhat meatier first paragraph to that section. I'll look at it again later to see if this section can be improved/expanded when I have more time.

Beingzoe 21:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Contradiction

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In the last phararaph:

"Although digital information is easily created, it is also fragile and easily deleted, destroyed..."

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"...digital information today is far too easy to reproduce, and far too hard to destroy."

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.66.7.213 (talk • contribs) 18:42, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

well, i dont see that as a contradiction,just bad choice of words.

Digital information is, by nature, very fragile and will decay very easily compared to, say, a stone tablet. In a historical context there is already great difficulty in examining "digital" content from only a few decades ago - eg, anyone own a betamax player? or a record player.. and how long will those old tapes keep information?

The other comement is to do with replication of information and verification. Information on the web is copied, linked, spread at an enourmous rate, and once a particular snippet of information gets on the web, its is next to impossible to "get it off the net". cf - spread of computer viruses, illicit "sex tapes" being spread over peer to peer, the problems of enforcing digital rights management tools etc.

Of course, those very same copies may be completely illegible in 10 years time... especially with constant updating of video codex, changing encryption/zip protocols etc.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.138.138.89 (talk • contribs) 09:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

He is saying those to sentences contradict each other... not the the sentences contradict themselves

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.43.235.241 (talk • contribs) 06:25, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Information cannot be destroyed. The info is not fragile but the records that contain it are. The author is talking about the records. I changed the article to reflect the intent and some minor edits. I don't know if minutia is a word but I left it in.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Awis (talk • contribs) 23:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Please sign your comments on talk page with 4 tildes, i.e. ~~~~ which will automatically be replaced by yourt name and a timestamp, like this RJFJR 04:51, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Uhh

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Why the heck does Digital Revolution redirect to the 1990s and Digital revolution redirect to the 1950s??? 24.111.234.4 (talk) 04:29, 24 July 2008 (UTC)