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RE: ///Public (re)Record///

in #deaccession7 years ago

I remember a prediction not too many years ago where someone said in the future we'd want (and more greatly value) a digital copy as opposed to the original. At first, this made no sense to me and then I recall when it did make a lot of sense. It wasn't about ownership so much as utility and control of the image and other information about the artifact. Well, a step further away from old-school reality (and toward a contemporary version of same) is believing that the public record is an extension of that newer, essential, but more elusive reality.

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Yeah I think of this the same way in which audiophiles were in an uproar when mp3s came out. Music was being compressed and audio quality was getting trashed and experts lamented and people created napster and limewire so that this new portable music format could germinate and grow. Now we have Spotify, Tidal, and all the others and kids today don't even know what an mp3 is. It's just a song.