Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The Annotated USENET: A Cultural Coredump of the Early Information Age
Keywords: Oh, I love it... <snicker><snicker>
Message-ID: <1904@looking.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 22:30:41 GMT
References: <692@gtx.com> <443@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when everything
that anybody takes the time to type for another person will be stored
permanently.  Storage is certainly getting that cheap, if it isn't
already.

This means that those who study history, news, current affairs, literature
and urban folklore will have a sudden change in their environment.
Information will no longer disappear by accident.

But it will become almost as hard finding the right information in a sea
of noise as it is finding vanished information today.

What really needs attention is the question of organizing the information
we do have so that we can use it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473