I wrote about Stonewall's sending me A library bigger than any building in Stonewall's Findings: A library bigger than any building and he had more to say on the matter.For those who don't know, Stonewall is one of my correspondents and also does research for NextStage (among other things we require). He research side (and a little of what NextStage does) is revealed in his follow up thoughts on this subject (also worth a read, I think).
it occurred to me (re the library project) that a great deal of understanding will be lost over time so actually you need to do an almost complete meme dump (complete cultural context of any work of art, book, etc).
Maybe science "facts" would be less affected but the articles (except math, maybe?) contain a hugh number of background assumptions.
Don't know that anyone is really storing enough info, cross-referenced, so even a 100 yrs from most of it would make sense.
Heck, not sure we really understand stuff from the early 1900s. Every few month learn something about a word or previous time that makes me look at an event completely differently.
Did you know that the first Union commanding General (the one who failed to win the first battle) was so popular Lincoln was afraid to sack him? He did anyway, but there was no commander of the army for a few months and during that time the General could have easily taken over. There was active planning for a coup and many of his people wanted him to. He refused. He may not have been a good General but we owe him one. I don't think I ever heard that (a few passing references over the years, but nothing that indicated how much danger we were in).
And so on. -:)
Regular readers know I have a quote for everything. The one that applies here is T.S. Eliot's "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
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