Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is very interesting, disturbing, melancholy if not downright sad, and strikes close to home for many of us in all probability. I have to get going at doing a lot of the same here. I have lots of technology that is dead, knowledge of that technology that is historical/pointless and skills that won't be used again. Software going back to Mac 128 days (older stuff is already gone), and all the knowledge/experience in how to apply it. Architectural drawings from projects long ago have to be judged as to whether anyone will sometime still want to sue me or someone else in some respect to the projects. Stuff newer than 20 years will definitely have to be kept. Architectural implements not related to computer aided design/drawing will get tossed. Goodbye, Leroy! Binders of commercial shots that mean nothing now and some equipment that has only historical value will go, one way or another. I will keep a darkroom, as I still enjoy B&W, but it certainly will be shrunken down. Nikor reels and a Focomat. With the drastic changes in technologies over the last 20 years, I'm sure every one of us over 40 has similar things to deal with at some point. Very well shown, George. On 2011-10-14, at 2:00 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Chris Saganich wrote: > >> It makes me wonder is knowledge its self has become disposable. > > Technological knowledge becomes irrelevant extremely quickly. > > As I threw out tens of thousands of dollars worth of old software > (allegedly the hottest software of the time), > manuals, floppy disks, 230 MB removable disks, etc. > It became very clear that all of that "knowledge" had no use or value in > 2011. > And that's just the computing side of the graphic arts history. > > Very few even care to hear the "stories" about the "old ways" of doing > things. > And those few can hardly comprehend what they've never experienced. > > Depth of knowledge is becoming extremely thin. > > And if any of you have tried googling some of the "old ways" > or "old tools" of the graphic arts industries > you've probably found, as I have, the information is not "out there." > The books are ending up in the dumpsters; > and we are dying. > So - the knowledge will be "gone." > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com