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Yup, Privacy went out the window 20 years ago when the DMV got FED permission to use SS numbers...then the medical/insurance (mediaeval, legalized gamblers) got a hold of them...securely of course. Lest we forget Y2K and what was really behind that curtain besides panic. Now they are taking DNA samples without our knowledge or consent of our Gkids at birth...wonder what that's for(¿) probably to use with the camera's on every street corner...circumcision is never painless even if you look away. OK Nuff!
Frank: Well put and thoughtful! I'm with you on libraries but have fortunately held onto my core books over the tragedies. Nearly all Heinlein, complete Richard Bach (all signed), EE Doc Smith, physics/math, engineering, philosophy (Whitehead 2nd ed.), extensive esoteric's, etc, plus a few juicy reads like Ludlum (signed)...Love my books, the smell, the act of reading them...all of it. Then there is the stacks next to my chair and bed...Oh no.
I too have gone through the archival stuff with every generation of OS and use a tablet sometimes now for things like a quick read of the Skylark series for the umteenth time (some great adventuresome stuff in those volumes and get something new every time). It's interesting that the repositories of information have morphed as well, from the burning of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and now Google...and hopefully here in this great repository of spew and wherewithal by some very bright lights still energized by knowledge and sharing it freely with those that want to learn and grow.
I know you are right that the real repository is in our noodles and it unfortunately fades with time and tribulation. I do like the idea of carving rocks but it won't fit on a google watch very well...What was it Blaise Pascal said about sitting quiet in a room?
One final thought from one of my favorites. I was privileged to stay in a hotel (now a BW) in Magdeburg on Goethestraße dedicated to his work quite a few times and once in the Goethe suit at the Westin in Berlin, now in famous movie.
"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~PJ
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