Stone Age Vs. Digital Age
Another thought while going through my mountains of zip disks, floppies, CDs and DVDs: This media is so very very temporary. How much of this kind of stuff will be around 5 years from now? 10? 1000?
When you think about it, digital media is pretty much all just zeros and ones; binary code. Hard drives crash & fail; images get deleted; audio files get erased too. Just about everyone using a computer in the last 10 years has a story about important files floating off into the ether.
In contrast... how about a painting inside a cave that is thousands of years old? A pyramid? Stonehenge? Mayan structures? Makes you wonder about what kind of "modern" structures, software, hardware or art could actually stand the test of time. It also makes one examine the philosophy of striving to "leave something behind." Leave what behind - and for how long?
Soon: Another thought about digital piracy taking musicians back to the stone age to make money...
When you think about it, digital media is pretty much all just zeros and ones; binary code. Hard drives crash & fail; images get deleted; audio files get erased too. Just about everyone using a computer in the last 10 years has a story about important files floating off into the ether.
In contrast... how about a painting inside a cave that is thousands of years old? A pyramid? Stonehenge? Mayan structures? Makes you wonder about what kind of "modern" structures, software, hardware or art could actually stand the test of time. It also makes one examine the philosophy of striving to "leave something behind." Leave what behind - and for how long?
Soon: Another thought about digital piracy taking musicians back to the stone age to make money...
