9/11 was Obamas fault?.......

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

39. And why they try to burn or destroy books.

Right now climate scientists are frantically putting a whole lot of their research out of this country so that it can't be silenced or destroyed.

One real problem with our growing reliance on information held electronically and sometimes only electronically, is that it can be messed with all too easily. Then there's the problem of the development of different kinds of electronic or digital storage. Remember 8 track tapes? Remember the old floppy disks that I think were about 10 inches across? The earlier generation of computers where everything was stored on a tape? Old reel-to-reel?

One of the reasons I obsessively back up stuff that's important to me both on various flash drives and with hard copy is that I don't want certain things lost. As it is, not too long ago I came across an older thumb drive that I was pretty sure I'd saved some stuff to, and my computer thought it was blank.

More importantly, a friend who is the office manager of a local church got involved in a project trying to recover some church history that had been saved on to some old and no longer used computer system and was having a very difficult time getting anything.

Hell, maybe the dinosaurs developed a technological civilization not long before they were all killed by the asteroid and the reason we don't know about that is that they'd destroyed all their physical books, went completely digital, and all was lost in the impact. Sounds like the background for some sort of s-f story, come to think of it.