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RE: [archivists] Is there gain in knowledge or loss of knowledge?

Brad

Sounds like you have a slow connection to the internet because all the images
did not have enough time to load to show that there is a parchment behind the
text.

WorldChronicle.net has a low-bandwidth version for phone modems. When you visit
the first page of the site, select the low-bandwidth version which will take you
here:

http://worldchronicle.net/kwik/

"Brad Jensen" <brad@...> wrote ..
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> Good idea, having the text in black on a black background.
>
> Only the truly committed will try to read it.
Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:47 pm

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[on a recent trip to India, Dr Om Vikas from the Ministry of Information gave a presentation and one of the slides really hit me hard. I have reproduced it... 		Brewster Kahle
brewster...
Offline Send Email 		Feb 19, 2003
9:47 pm

... At the risk of sassing my betters, I'd say that you need to get out more, Brewster. :-) This is an old idea and a common critique of globalism and...
Prentiss Riddle
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Send Email 		Feb 20, 2003
1:54 am

Hi Brewster -- Thanks for bringing this to the list's attention. I've been worried for quite some time about the erosion of both language diversity and of...
Chris Thorman
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Offline Send Email 		Feb 20, 2003
2:19 am

All the memories of the lives of my ancestors are recorded in the archetypes of the dreams in my mind. I write down as many of these patterns of human action...
astarius
astarius@...
Send Email 		Feb 20, 2003
7:02 pm

... So? Perhaps we're more aware of the loss now, but this has always happened. If there's no-one around to speak a language, and there are no written records...
Steve Thomas
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Send Email 		Feb 20, 2003
7:03 pm

Hi All. First reply to this group. Coming from an IT background, rather than a "curator". Without being a an academic type since leaving University, I had...
[POPLAR IT] Paul Tegg...
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Send Email 		Feb 20, 2003
7:04 pm

Well, this is very intersting - although I wonder if there is really proof of all the statements, for instance, items number 2, 4, and 5, and I also wonder if...
Karl-Erik Tallmo
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Offline Send Email 		Feb 20, 2003
7:04 pm

Brad Sounds like you have a slow connection to the internet because all the images did not have enough time to load to show that there is a parchment behind...
Simon Seamount
Astarius@...
Send Email 		Feb 24, 2003
12:48 pm

I don't necessarily agree with Vikas when he says we lose art and ideas along with the loss of language. I agree that art and ideas are not static. They change...
News Library
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Send Email 		Feb 24, 2003
12:48 pm

... I think of knowledge more as a vehicle than a destination, more as CPU cycles than as bits stored on a disk. Today, very few drivers know how an engine...
Lars Aronsson
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Offline Send Email 		Apr 10, 2003
5:20 am

... I have long been concerned with this topic, my own visual aid is a triangle or pyramid structure as it is often used to portray the structure of Fortune...
Michael Hart
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Send Email 		Apr 10, 2003
4:37 pm
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