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Do Digital Photos Endanger History?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-problem-here dept.

Ant writes "Experienced photographer Jayne West wrote her degree dissertation on the historical impact of digital capture. She argues that the use of digital photography in news reporting means we could lose a valuable pictorial record of history." Much of her argument seems weak to me (precisely because digital photography allows the instant culling West talks about). The digital storage itself, though, perhaps ought to make us nervous.

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  1. Paper???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    By the gods! How can you write anything important on paper? It will be lost to history. You need to carve your work on large stone slabs so it won't deteriorate over time. Anything else is unconscienable.

    1. Re:Paper???? by mrogers · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my holiday snaps, ye mighty, and despair.

  2. Re:The real danger by John+Miles · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you look at them under a very high powered microscope

    No good. The RIAA-sponsored Microscopy Analysis Abuse Prevention (MAAP) Act of 2412 outlawed the use of "optical enhancement technology" for purposes of reverse-engineering their intellectual property.

    Gotta go, the DeLorean overheats if I leave it idling too long...

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