This is often called "The Information Era". I've always called it "The Information Lost Era".
You may quote me. Why the NASA person said to immediately destroy the tapes, one can only guess. Those tapes belonged to the people of the USA. They were not some single persons option to destroy. We as tax payer own that information. Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Eric Christopherson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 1:03:01 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Depressing article On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Eric Christopherson < echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> >> https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/07/nasa-computer-engi >> neer-basement/ >> >> of events that happened two years ago that had to be obtained through a >> NASA FOIA request >> > > Another depressing recent article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ > national/archive/2013/12/scientific-data-lost-forever/356422/ > Whoops, not *recent* recent. (I only just encountered it.) > > -- > Eric Christopherson > -- Eric Christopherson
