[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

[Michael Bimmler]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Suppose that it does happen *today*.
>> All electronic systems collapse but the ones at your home.
>> Also, you cannot produce new ones.
>> You have a copy of wikipedia on your hard disk. You can access it.
>> But your computer lifetime is finite. And you also don't know for how
>> much time you'll still have electric current.
>> What do you do?
>
>
> Sell my computer for food, water, guns, and ammunition?

Actually, if the world is at this stage, you will want to heed
Einstein's advice and get some sticks and stones, rather...(or maybe a
bow and sword, if you prefer the sophisticated version)

Michael


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