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the Digital age I was talking to Susan last evening as she dug
through numerous photos of our past hunting for a specific one. I mentioned how
we need to get a scanner to capture our non-digital photos accumulated over the
past 20 years (had 2 so far and they have broken for misc. reasons).
I was thinking how interesting it is that in one
generation we as a civilization have gotten a mechanism for the personal artist
- the rest of us - to permanently capture and retain without fading,cracking,
tearing, or losing the visible portions of our existence on a medium that can
last long after that image can ever be recreated. 'Course formats are now the
issue - to JPEG or to TIFF, to PNG... well, you get the
picture.
And media like CD's and DVD's do not last forever, and the loss of just one of
these can mean death to a large number of images.
But it is interesting how easily we can now manage to capture and exchange images of the past, present, and... well ... not future (yet). |