Becoming documentarians (Page 4): Where will all these "1's and 0's be at to be recovered. I don't deny the existence of the technology to recover stored digital information. My...

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

gvarner wrote:

There will always be technology to recover the 1's and 0's, it’s simply a matter of someone wanting to do it.

Where will all these "1's and 0's be at to be recovered. I don't deny the existence of the technology to recover stored digital information. My contention is that it will be lost because it hasn't been placed in a place to be recovered and also has not been identified as to what it is so a decision can be made about whether its recovery serves a useful purpose.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

RodeoMan wrote:

Where will all these "1's and 0's be at to be recovered. I don't deny the existence of the technology to recover stored digital information. My contention is that it will be lost because it hasn't been placed in a place to be recovered and also has not been identified as to what it is so a decision can be made about whether its recovery serves a useful purpose.

Well that’s pretty much up to whoever owns the data.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

SuperflyTNT wrote:

Well that’s pretty much up to whoever owns the data.

I agree, but also think there will be a "whole lot" of "1's and 0's" that will be "floating" around with undeterminable ownership or more likely existing without anyone knowing that it is there for examination or who actually owns it. I suppose that it has always been this way. Individuals, companies and political entities have from beginning of civilization have been sending their personal and public records to the trash midden or to the landfill.

netsailer Loc: Tampa, FL

photosbytw wrote:

This response is a little off topic but I am in th... (show quote)

about ten years ago my brothers and sister started bringing boxes of old family photos each time we met (generally once or twice a year). We would sort through the photos, select ones that had some kind of importance. I would then use and old Nikon micro lens to take a picture of the selected pictures, and go to a computer, enter each picture and write about it. After two years we created a nice hardback book of our father, and then another of our mother. The idea was to make something of obvious quality that would also give family readers a sense about the lives of each parent. We felt it was a better idea than just storing lots of old photos in boxes and albums, where later generations would have no idea who the people were.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

jerryc41 wrote:

Yes, I agree. These million of photos could be of interest in the future.

For the past few years, I've been taking pictures around my town. Structures come and go, and it's nice have a pictorial history.

I got into this hobby thru my interest in trains. I began photographing because I would “record today before tomorrow comes and everything changes”.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

gvarner wrote:

Just my observation here. We are entering an age of photography documentarians, folks taking snapshots of anything and everything that piques their interest. It’s so easy to do now. And the younger generation seems to becoming fully engaged. Much of what I see on this forum is a testament to that reality. I’m not trying to be negatively critical, just making an observation. Others will have different opinions.

We have always been documentarians. It is our nature. Oddly, more are becoming accustomed to this feature. More of us are not just interested in photographing the moment. A majority of this new generation are desirous of creating a cookbook of the past. More and more will come to understand how we lived during these tumultuous times.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

gvarner wrote:

Just my observation here. We are entering an age of photography documentarians, folks taking snapshots of anything and everything that piques their interest. It’s so easy to do now. And the younger generation seems to becoming fully engaged. Much of what I see on this forum is a testament to that reality. I’m not trying to be negatively critical, just making an observation. Others will have different opinions.

What? Did you just wake up from an instamatic sleep from, say, 1970? Or, the use of every camera in every cell phone ever?

Where you been, Rip?