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Digital Information vs. Hard Copies and Originals

I was picking up some film the other day of some of the dawgies I work with, a few of which I'll probably scan and post just so y'all can see my lovie dovies, and as I looked the pictures over the words of one of my co-workers (a Homo Sapien Sapien) found their way into my head from a conversation we had had earlier. She said she doesn't get photographs anymore and prefers to get all her pictures on a CD. This got me thinking about the gradual shift that has occurred in many realms of documentary life over the past several years and the fact that so many documents, pictures, information in general, have been entrusted to electronic storage devices. This idea got me to begin comparing the ability of digitized information to endure as compared to that of hard copies and originals of the same information. Which will last longer, an image saved on a hard drive or a photograph of that image in a photo album? It all depends, for maybe either the hard drive or album will burn in a fire or be destroyed by a flood, making the other the victor. However, all disastrous occurrences aside, I feel it is more likely that in the long run the hard copy will outlast the digital one. I don't know how long a document, image, etc. can/is meant to stay written on a storage device, but I have seen files of mine go to hell for one reason or another having had a life-span of only a few weeks or months. Eventually, within a person's life time I would think, a hard drive would begin to show signs of its usage through the loss or corruption of files, and it is only a matter of time until information will need to be transferred to another storage device (it is recommended in the first place that all info on one storage device be backed up on another, in case the first becomes faulty). I highly doubt a storage device is meant to last a whole lifetime, much less 500 years like many paintings. Additionally, the tangibility, the ability to touch and feel the texture of an original painting as compared to a digital one is so much more special. Even a photograph, which can be copied as many times as one desires, is more special than the digital version of it. It exists in real space, in all three axes, x, y, and z. I believe in the sanctity of the the physical and the original, even though one could argue that our world as we perceive it is hardly "real" or tangible (Descartes, among others), but that merits a whole other discussion that I don't feel like getting into. I gotsta go work with my fuzzy little angels. Yayyyyy!!!!