In article <38B64B0C.D255EE9C@iname.com>, Jerome <ber### [at] inamecom> 
wrote:

> 	I hope so, the story is pretty depressing otherwise... But
> what he says is that we're growing better and better at
> preserving things, which means that less and less are lost
> and left to rediscover :(

I don't know, I have plenty of fun looking through the "archives"(mostly 
books and internet resources for me) and learning things which other 
people have discovered. Just because something is known doesn't mean it 
isn't worth learning...and there is an awful lot of information out 
there, there is no way we could store it all.
If we do store a vast amount of information in one place(I mean several 
times the size of our largest library), than a new kind of researcher 
will have to appear, whose job is to search through and keep organized 
this resource. Finding a specific thing in that mass of information 
could be nearly as much work as discovering it again.(ok, so I 
exaggerated a little. But this effect is already happening on a smaller 
scale on the Internet.) AI's would be a big help too, but I don't think 
they would be able to handle everything.(no offense intended, Ken. :-) )

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Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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