The Sounds of Silence.....
Dec. 24th, 2008 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdehnersI was looking over my photo albums and realised SOMETHING. That triggered a memory of a passage of a sci-fi book I'd read long ago that, at the time thought stupid...but no longer. In my defence, it was at a time when you could, with a little work listen to the same music album that your grandparent's listened to...and BOUGHT;>.
The bit was an archeologist bitching about how they hated digging up high tech civilizations because you never learned much about them, esp compared to low-tech ones. It's TRUE....
The thing I noticed was that there wasn't a single phot in the album that wasn't over a decade old. That's when I got my 1st Digital camera. It's about this time as well that I stop journalling "hardcopy" and use my computer exclusively.
Advanced tech is fragile and temporary, something I learned about 5 yrs ago when my HD on my laptop fried, destroying all photos and journalling stored upon it that hadn't been backed up. And even that wasn't very useful since the system I had for backup was obsolete compared to the replacement machine.
I Understand the meaning now. Low tech cultures leave their lives in manners that can survive. Even their voices, in the cases of the voices of potters accidently using the same tech that Edison used. High tech? Their architecture. Even their machines decompose into something unrecognisable...other than that of a dead machine;>! My Dad still has those old giant floppies, though even if he could get a machine, the software to read it and translate it is beyond all but he most "tecchy".
For my life? I recognise that when the power finally goes off,the only Proof of my live will end at my Wedding....the last Photos taken. In fact, the digital photos taken and given to us? Gone in a computer accident. But the old Kodak paper remains....
Truth,
Pat
a.
The bit was an archeologist bitching about how they hated digging up high tech civilizations because you never learned much about them, esp compared to low-tech ones. It's TRUE....
The thing I noticed was that there wasn't a single phot in the album that wasn't over a decade old. That's when I got my 1st Digital camera. It's about this time as well that I stop journalling "hardcopy" and use my computer exclusively.
Advanced tech is fragile and temporary, something I learned about 5 yrs ago when my HD on my laptop fried, destroying all photos and journalling stored upon it that hadn't been backed up. And even that wasn't very useful since the system I had for backup was obsolete compared to the replacement machine.
I Understand the meaning now. Low tech cultures leave their lives in manners that can survive. Even their voices, in the cases of the voices of potters accidently using the same tech that Edison used. High tech? Their architecture. Even their machines decompose into something unrecognisable...other than that of a dead machine;>! My Dad still has those old giant floppies, though even if he could get a machine, the software to read it and translate it is beyond all but he most "tecchy".
For my life? I recognise that when the power finally goes off,the only Proof of my live will end at my Wedding....the last Photos taken. In fact, the digital photos taken and given to us? Gone in a computer accident. But the old Kodak paper remains....
Truth,
Pat
a.
