If Shakespeare Had a Hard Drive

There would be even more dissertation topics, I guess:

"If the plays had been written with a word processor on a computer that had somehow survived, we still might not know anything definitive about Shakespeare's original or final intentions these are human, not technological, questions but we might be able to know some rather different things... We might discover the play had originally been called GreatDane.doc instead of Hamlet.doc. We might also be able to know what else he had been working on that same day, or what Internet content he had browsed the night before (since we'll assume Shakespeare had Web access too). While he was online, he might have updated his blog or tagged some images in his Flickr account, or perhaps edited a Wikipedia entry or two. He might even have spent some time interacting with others by performing with an avatar in Second Life, an online place where all the world is truly a shared virtual stage.
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We may no longer have the equivalent of Shakespeare's hard drive, but we do know that we wish we did, and it is therefore not too late or too early to begin taking steps to make sure we save the born-digital records of the literature of today."