You Tube and Electronic Data

[John]

I use Google Alerts for things I am interested in, like survival, primitive survival and other things. Helps me not to miss any items, articles etc. posted on the internet.

But, I have noticed as time goes on there are more and more items posted on You Tube, that is video clips. Now these can be useful for taking you through the 'how to' of any given process. You might then practice and may be more than once before you get it anywhere like in the clip.

My problem and I think for others is that post SHTF we are not going to have much or any electric. Eventually it will stop altogether and even batteries need charging. OK, solar is fine but even then eventually things will break down and go wrong and who is going to repair them or replace them.

So you will not be able to look at your You Tube clip to check the 'how to', to see if you missed something or did something wrong. From a teaching point of view for future generation it would be hopeless.

At least in print, and even pictures in print, you have something that will last a lot longer and you can always do what the monks did, copy to more paper, if you have some or can make some.

Do you see the problem, and this applies to any electronically produced and duplicated or transmitted information. Even this posting.

John