Eric Rosenthal

Eric Rosenthal's lecture was a little too biologically specific for my taste, but when he started to discuss the implications of archiving I definitely perked up. So for my sake, I'm not going to bother to discuss the human vision system, accept that I think it would be great for a camera to work more in line with how our eyes work. I would love to see some of the test shots that he did with the technology he came up with, I can't even imagine how much better a camera image could look (I've been so impressed with the Red camera lately, but a camera like the one Eric describes sounds like it would blow it out of the water).
As for archiving, it's something that I unfortunately haven't thought much about in my life, but hearing him talk about it I suddenly feel this great sense of urgency to start printing everything I find (although that seems like a terribly un-environmentally friendly option). I can't believe this is not a bigger issue for our government, and in general for the world, but it seems like no one has yet to discover a way of keeping information in perpetuity. Certainly the options we have in place now don't seem to have been given much forethought, and I wish there was an easy answer. For now I suppose I should just try to be more mindful of the information I store on my computer and remember that my laptop is not infallible. I have recently learned the importance of external hard-drives after having two laptops stolen, but I wonder if I should consider keeping a written log of important stuff somewhere (who am I kidding, I'm way too lazy for that).