its unfortunate to think how much is created and preserved with current technology, which will probably not be available at some point in the near future as technologies change. the print on old books fades, the floppy disk with my high school english writing project is unreadable, unless i buy a record player i cannot accept the wonderful gift of micheals jackson's
bad on vinyl from my mother, all the cassette tapes i collected in college of live shows by various bands are now gone, etc...
here's an art installation by
jean shin that nicely summarizes the point.
it's called "sound waves" and was
highlighted in a NY Times article. the artist melted old vinyl records and "the resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete."
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