Ahhh now therein lies a tale to be told...

In a world where knowledge has become so ephemeral and everything is stored digitally and not analogue, books become more valuable not less. Think about how your great-grand parents had physical photographs taken of them and you could see them a hundred years later? What will happen to today's throwaway society? Will we even be able to see let alone understand us now? Already tv shows or movies of the last 30 years unless they are commercialised and made into digital copies are lost forever.

What are we missing out on every decade we move forward without looking back?

Whoops.. I just went into a long rant about the perils of bitrot that was well out of place in this thread so I removed it.

I will be more suited to a personal post. Sorry.