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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by AK907ICECOLD
This reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
(Highly recommend)
With electronic books, subtle changes can be made. Idelogy can be inserted or deleted.
With print publications, the message can be sent and traded and copied and is, in a sense immortal.
I can see to a conspiracy where print media is eliminated so memes can be inserted into the public group-think via electronic publication.
S&F!
Originally posted by pheonix358
This is getting off topic! Let me see if we can get it back on track!
The world is changing and we need to be careful.
Take the online game WOW. The original version no longer exists. Players do not have copies of it. It is stored on company servers.
In high school the trend has started that you don't buy your books, you rent the online version. The good part is it is easily updated the bad part is that for some strange reason they are more expensive and you can't hand them down nor can you sell them at the end of the year. Hmm, money grubbing &**(holes at work yet again.
When I went to high school I did physics. We learnt about atomic weapons and even had to know the formulas for making one. They are not teaching that any more.
It is not only books, movies do the same thing. They change history to make it more "acceptable". The story of Robin Hood and Maid Marion is a classic example. Considering the era, Maid Marion would have been between 12 and 14 years of age. The last movie I saw had the dear lass at about 30! At that age she was not considered a Maid, rather she was a spinster! In Great Briton the ages that the kings and queens married at are also affected by revisionists.
Paper books are useful for 'checking up on things' The ability to go to the library and look up a resource from 1850AD and get the true state of affairs keeps the bastards honest. I have a set of Grolier Encyclopedias dated 1946. That is prior to the work of the revisionists. It is a handy reference.
All fields are affected by the ability to hide history. What Psychologists were doing back in '47 would curl your curlers! Same for medicine.
If online versions of books, that is, you don't own or download a book, you look it up in cloud computing come of age then the revisionists will have a field day.
My State library is already pulling books and magazines off the shelf. You cannot for example find any details of a number of scientific fields that I know with absolute clarity did exist. Ok, they pulled all the how to books on atomic weapons. Perhaps that is Ok. They pulled early work by specific scientists.
The question is, how far is too far. What happens when you want to show some friends in ten years time the fact that Obama made two near identical speeches a year apart and all you get is "That speech does not exist" "New search?"
It is hard for us to think that far into the future. I will leave you with this technology teaser.
In the 1960s the best SciFi minds got together and created Star Trek. The best they could come up with was Kirks flip communicator! Compare that to today's mobile phone!
It is a dangerous future when at the press of a few buttons recent history can be deleted or revised. Records of judgements, jail terms, birth records. The written word will be subject to the shifting sands of time. A very short time.
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Originally posted by AK907ICECOLD
reply to post by blupblup
You have put my thread back on topic!!!
Thank you for that info and great reply, 20 years and AS I said in the OP this is why if the few people on earth remained would barely have solid info, what damn tech is the "leftovers" going to have to process and access if the computers and tech is all destroyed?
IMO, the scrolls and books that have been found, and all the "TECH" that was lost from atlantis????
Originally posted by marinesniper0317
reply to post by AK907ICECOLD
BURN ALL BOOKS - all of them...wait I meant BURN them to your iPad or kindle...sorry for the confusion...
I carry an iPad 2 next to my M40a5, try humping 20+ clicks in mountainous terrain with 50 lbs of books onto of your 90lbs+ pack and 20+lbs .308...
Sniper...
Originally posted by AK907ICECOLD
reply to post by blupblup
Wasn't there the Library of Jupiter that was burned and destroyed? Romans?? Or something?
If I remember right it held most of the greatest works of philosophers of all time.
Don't quote me on that, but thank you for that awesome Info friend!
Originally posted by pheonix358
Originally posted by marinesniper0317
reply to post by AK907ICECOLD
BURN ALL BOOKS - all of them...wait I meant BURN them to your iPad or kindle...sorry for the confusion...
I carry an iPad 2 next to my M40a5, try humping 20+ clicks in mountainous terrain with 50 lbs of books onto of your 90lbs+ pack and 20+lbs .308...
Sniper...
You may be missing the point!
Don't throw your Kindle away! They are just too damn convenient as you rightly point out.
Just don't throw the paper versions out either.
Otherwise you will be reading Huckleberry Finn and it will be completely modernized so no one gets offended. There goes another good book down the toilet.That sort of thing will never stop until all you will be able to read are Mills and Boone, the sanitized versions.
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