The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37119   Message #517164
Posted By: Peter T.
29-Jul-01 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: How Well Do CDs last?
Subject: RE: How Well Do CDs last?
It is vitally important that these modern archives deteriorate and die as soon as possible, so that future generations will not be burdened with the crap generated by our society. The prospect of having to reproduce and salvage the important things acts as a filter against littering time with trash. The Greeks and the Romans are still vital because 99% of what they wrote was lost, and only Plato and about 100 others survived. A shelf of Loeb classics covers most of it. Egyptian papyrus turns up from time to time, of mind bending dulness.

yours, Peter T.