Comments on: Information decay http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/26/information-decay/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Transmedia conversations || August || 2007 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/26/information-decay/comment-page-1/#comment-73222 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Transmedia conversations || August || 2007 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:09:31 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/24/information-decay/#comment-73222 [...] since forgotten and I have no way of recovering it. I can see advantages to this form of built-in information decay, but I also think we will lose our history. I can’t imagine future historians being able to [...] [...] since forgotten and I have no way of recovering it. I can see advantages to this form of built-in information decay, but I also think we will lose our history. I can’t imagine future historians being able to [...]

]]> By: Eric http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/26/information-decay/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Eric Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:50:23 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/24/information-decay/#comment-115 Except that con-thinkers (who may be a majority in America right now) use it as an excuse to hold back pro-thinkers. So that part bothers me. Except that con-thinkers (who may be a majority in America right now) use it as an excuse to hold back pro-thinkers. So that part bothers me.

]]> By: Beemer http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/26/information-decay/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Beemer Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:32:35 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/07/24/information-decay/#comment-114 I agree. It's a social problem, not a technological one. (And since it causes more problems for con-thinkers than prog-thinkers, I don't mind leaving it unsolved by technical means, because I'm spiteful that way. Learn to cope with context, dammit!) I agree. It’s a social problem, not a technological one.

(And since it causes more problems for con-thinkers than prog-thinkers, I don’t mind leaving it unsolved by technical means, because I’m spiteful that way. Learn to cope with context, dammit!)

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