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RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-05 09:47:49


On Thursday, January 05, 2006 07:03:39 AM +0200 Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s(_at_)rad(_dot_)com> wrote:

[YJS] Actually, cuneiform on clay tablets and hieroglyphics on marble
stelai seem to be better than paper if you really want your message to
last a long time.

I'm not convinced clay is better than paper; marble certainly is.
However, neither is as widely deployed, probably due to the high costs of production and distribution. :-)

-- Jeff

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