Why Historical preservation?
It’s about more than just sites and history. The history and the sites provide a context. Concepts, ideas, truth, many things are understood only when they are in a context. Meaning is given in a context. Without that context we lose site of what is meant, what is real.
Digital preservation of physical reality is another step in saving and preserving the human context and history. It’s a mapping of the human cultural genome (borrowing the phrase from another TED talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html). Our history and our sites give us the context to talk about what it is to be human.
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