Mike Johnston wrote:
> (snip, snip)
> The fact is, for the lion's share of images made,
> people either won't care enough or won't expend the effort to preserve them.
> We will lose much more of our history than we did during the film era. Just
> like people are already losing all their color snapshots from the Instamatic
> era onwards.
>
> Whether you think that's good or bad is a value judgment. But the "fact"
> that digital is "more archival" is only a theoretical truth--it won't be
> true in actual practice, i.e. the way the images are most likely to be
> collected and preserved.
>
> --Mike
>
Your entire post on this topic was eloquent, Mike... and certainly one which
reflects my own point of view.
annsan
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