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WalkingDead posted an update 6 years, 8 months ago
NARA Drives Govt Transition to All-Electronic Records
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is embarking on an ambitious effort to phase out the acquisition of paper records by 2022 and to transition to all-electronic record keeping. The White House Office of Management and Budget has endorsed the initiative and has directed all federal agencies to adopt exclusively electronic formats for managing permanent records.
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2019/08/nara-electronic/
Anyone else think this is a very bad idea?
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Burning of the Books, haha.
1984=2022? … Sooooo, with the government contracting out … and the majority of connected documents (with the exception of the meaningless deliverables) resulting from the contracts becoming proprietary …
wait, wait, … let me guess … the next thing we’ll be told is that this proved to be such a great idea that the next project is the “all-electronicization” of the entirety of the National Archives. Wait, wait, wait … I have an even better idea … as soon as the “all-electonicization” has occurred we should put all of the data into “the cloud”. Of course, this will enable it to be “sanitized for your protection”.
I’m not sure how many of you reading this are old enough to remember going into your hotel/motel bathroom and finding this
printed on a sash placed across the toilet. Seems fitting in this case … that is exactly where this idea belongs. A place where its eventual travels will take it to its proper resting place joining the vast majority (one might even say “vast steaming heap”) of government ideas.
-Somebody, somewhere, will keep paper or other types of decay-proof copies in vaults.
The ancients used, apart from stone, inscribed gold or lead sheets (lead has the advantage of being disdained by robbers).