Navegando por mis archivos de la escuela, me topé con un ensayo que escribí a mediados del 2006. Me pareció interesante como para ponerlo aquí, sólo como reflexión. Disculpen que esté en inglés, pero me da mucha flojera traducirlo.
Why do we humans need to remember it all? Why do we think we need to preserve all the knowledge on those simple flat pieces of trees with meticulously arranged pigments on them? Moreover, what will the people of year 20536 do with all the recorded memories of us?
I seriously doubt they’ll save them.
First, the cavern paintings tried to keep in memory the great survivor stories, almost mythical sightings of unknown animals. Later and for a long while, books (any kind of ink on a piece of animal/plant) were the solution –and they still are—. But as the new century of inventions came, photography had a warm welcome; after all, a picture is worth a thousand words. And what about 30 pictures per second! As parents with new baby and camera could just put the photos together, flip them and see a stop-motion video of their own creation, video-cameras came in handy. [For you nerds out there, that would be 30,000 words/sec.]
The time passed, cameras got better. Years passed, the still images were already an art, while moving pictures were starting to be. Equipment got cheaper, people could afford it. Continue reading ‘The impressive human knowledge load’
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