Time on our hands

[Tony Griffiths]

The books are great as they will be documents which stay with the car long after we are all dead. Drawing together all the information is a nice thing to do - like sticking together a badly broken vase.
Whilst getting things onto computer is good for people NOW to be able to access,  I'm not convinced the whole lot will not disappear, along with all the virtually held banking system -  in another global viral glitch. Even dealing with websites which get hacked or stop working because of software upgrades make one realise how much we rely on things which aren't terribly solid.

As long ago as 2015 Google's vice president warned internet users to print out treasured photographs or risk losing them.
"Vint Cerf, the internet pioneer, said it was time to start preserving the vast quantities of digital data which are produced before they are lost forever.  Warning that the 21st century could become a second "Dark Ages" because so much data is now kept in digital format, he said that future generations would struggle to understand our society because technology is advancing so quickly that old files will be inaccessible. Speaking at a conference in San Jose, California, Mr Cerf likened the problem to the Dark Ages, the period in Britain between the 5th and 8th centuries where little is known, following the collapse of the Roman Empire."

Did you know that you can download a complete website and save it? In many cases it can be converted to a PDF, though when printed the structure can be somewhat poor. Try https://www.inspyder.com