From: fuwa fuwa usagi <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
Reply-To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com,North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Re: nafex Digest, Vol 2, Issue 4
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 16:47:31 -0800 (PST)
Gang:
Re: PDFâs
The archive of technological innovation is filled with examples of âsuperstarâ products that had a âday in the sunâ only to disappear. When is the last time you found anything capable of opening a Wang document, a WinStar, WordStar document, or how about Wordperfect 5.1? For a very modern example converting between Word and Ami Pro? I cannot open my Word 2 documents with Office 2000. In fact I have disks of excellent articles that are useless because of technological obsolescence. Ah, but always people explain how this time it is different, how product x is the defacto standardâ¦well I have one question for you, what are you planning on watching your VHS tapes on in 15 years?
I love Adobe products, the indexing, and the search capabilities. But in the end it is a technology that is defined in a technological environment. Technological advance clearly illustrates that the technological environment will change, and the cost of converting and bridging technologies is prohibitive for non-commercial ventures.
Wishing you all the best,
The fluffy bunny
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