Boy do I wish right now that everything was digital, computerized. The effect it would have on my would be amazing! As I sit here and write a paper for english class, I can’t believe how hard it is to find quotes I had indexed earlier.
It probably doesn’t help that I haven’t read the book I am writing on, ”Sweet and Sour Milk” by Nuruddin Farah.
But just imagine it – you could google for almost unlimited articles relating a published work, and also it could be available to you in a digital, lexical medium. I could have the book in pdf format and search for keywords until a good quote popped up and would have a dynamite paper in no time.
But one of the things that always worries me about digital media is that it is so new, nobody knows how well it will age. I currently have about 500 photos from my trip to France – all digital. I want to be able to ensure that 50 years from now I still have those photos and am able to view them. Will there still be mp3’s in 40 years? Because my entire music collection is digital and stored on my computer. I really hope that I won’t ever be lost.