Electronic publishing

[Leonard Krishtalka]

At 01:36 PM 03/11/1996 -0600, Lammers wrote:
  How would you
>feel if you had protologues that were only available on wax cylinder
>recordings, 78 rpm records, 8-track tape, or Beta videotape?  What seems
>so very wonderful to us now, may well be tomorrow's joke.  Let's be prudent.

       I agree that caution and prudence are wise, if only because we know
from organismal and technological evolution that trend is not destiny.  It
is worth remembering however that the information recorded by all of the
"extinct" technologies -- 78 rpm records, 8-track table, wax cylinder -- are
being recovered and archived on CDs.  The challenge is not keeping up with
technology or even predicting it.  The challenge is being willing to keep
adapting one's enterprise to the most effective protocols for that
enterprise.  Electronic publishing, prudently done, is one of those protocols.


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