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Re: Destructive Scanning: perspective of the "half-full"
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"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:50:38 -0500
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Subject:        Re: Destructive Scanning: perspective of the "half-full"
Date:   Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:10:38 -0700
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...then there's that disturbing scene from the George Pal version of
'The Time Machine'  in which the Eloi take the Time Traveler to the
remnants of their great library, where all he finds are a pile of
self-playing children's history tales on optical discs and stacks full
of nothing but the ashes (acid paper, anyone?) of 50,000 years of lost
human culture, science, technology, literature and philosophy....


Edward A. Sullivan
  From my HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network

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