Once people have reached a certain mastery of the English language, spelling, grammatical and typographical errors no longer matter. I often tell my friends that I speak fluent typo in an effort to keep them from constantly correcting themselves and interrupting the flow of conversation when using instant messenger.
I agree with both of you here. I've always thought that we need some sort of physical representation of the data in question. Perhaps a superhard polycarbonate with the images etched in various planes holographically. Film and paper are better but hardly perfect. If you want something that lasts, look at carved murals and clay tablets.
This is a super important issue that, if our government wasn't so busy squabbling over right to die and which big corporate buddy to help out next, is a public one. I think the government should offer a free service to transcribe data into an archival form and at your choosing, hand it back to you or keep it in a national archive for future generations.
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Once people have reached a certain mastery of the English language, spelling, grammatical and typographical errors no longer matter. I often tell my friends that I speak fluent typo in an effort to keep them from constantly correcting themselves and interrupting the flow of conversation when using instant messenger.
I agree with both of you here. I've always thought that we need some sort of physical representation of the data in question. Perhaps a superhard polycarbonate with the images etched in various planes holographically. Film and paper are better but hardly perfect. If you want something that lasts, look at carved murals and clay tablets. This is a super important issue that, if our government wasn't so busy squabbling over right to die and which big corporate buddy to help out next, is a public one. I think the government should offer a free service to transcribe data into an archival form and at your choosing, hand it back to you or keep it in a national archive for future generations.