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04-04-2004, 11:05 AM

mobileMike Ponderer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 75		Editing the future's digital history..... Editing the future's digital history..... The intersection of two independent events in my life has lead me to believe our future's digital history is in jeopardy. Event 1: Our family had decided to make a collection of historic family photos on one of the walls in our home. This requires searching through boxes of old �paper� photos stored in relatives' closets. Event 2: April 1, 2004 the local news paper has a fictitious story about seals being introduced to a local lake. The store includes digitally modified photos showing the seals swimming in the lake with city landmarks in the background. I truly believe that our descendants will be able to realize that newspaper article is fake simply because the date is April Fools day. Now just image where the original digitally modified pictures are for the newspaper article. They are probably stored on some disk with some cryptic name. Let's call it a �virtual shoe box�. If someone is scanning through these archives 100, 200 or 500 years from now there may exist no cross reference between these altered photos and the fictitious story. I believe the same is true for many photos taken today with digital cameras or camera phones. I can only image being a historian of the future. I am contemplating editing some photos that place me with influential people or at exotic places and lacing my relatives' photo shoe boxes with physical printouts of my �art�. The date of this transaction would be April 1, 2005 giving me one year to prepare. It may be that just months before I die I will be discussing with my grandchildren the people and stories behind the photos in those very same shoe boxes. Will I then reveal my April Fools joke of 2005? - mike schmidt

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