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Old 29-09-2023, 06:27 PM
Hans Tucker (Hans)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crater101 View Post
In his 1982 novel Friday, Robert Heinlein writes a character who says,


"...we must now prepare the monastries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper."

Sounds like sage advice to me. It's a bit hard to Google how to fix something if there's no power, for example.


Sorry, don't mean to derail the thread.
Hardly a derail. Thankyou for posting this appropriate quote.
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