[photo-3d] Re: Time Capsule/CD

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--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, Bill C Walton <bill3dbw3d@xxxx> wrote:
>I put in 10 Stereo Cards, including ones of President Bill Clinton 
and VP Al Gore. Columbus Mayor Bobby Peters, and one of me flying a 
CH54 during my last flight as a Army Aviator in 1978. I also put in a 
plastic Keystone stereoscope, a copy of the Bill C Walton 3D-CD 
Project and it's two viewing devices. Whether or not any of these 
things will last or be usable when the capsule is opened in ???? is 
questionable, but at least WE TRIED.
>

My guess is, 100 years from now, they will have the most trouble
using the CD.  By that time, the CD may very well have gone the way
of the 8-track tape or even the Edison wax cylinder, two recording 
technologies that, today, are very difficult to use.

Digital images are probably the most fragile of all the images that
we take or save.  The technology changes so quickly these days, that
I suspect the CD ROM will be completely replaced by a newer and more 
efficient recording medium in as little as 10 years or so from now.  
But who really knows.

It still was nice to be able to put some stereo in a time capsule.

John