> there's an abundance of this type of content on Youtube
.. who makes their money monetizing the content of others.
I respect this guy for staying off the commercialized hosting site and having such a simple, functional website. That is even before my kudos to his work toward duplicating technology from the ground up, and then documenting both success and failure. The latter is something many programmers, including myself, tend to defer until the end of time.
Applied science is a channel in a similar vein. Tackles a lot of interesting engineering projects and walks through all of his results till getting his final product. Really interesting stuff.
The only problem with YouTube is that it's not organized. It's not indexable or printable. Videos are on Google's servers - here today and gone tomorrow. Videos are GREAT for stuff that you can't put into text, and YouTube excels at getting info out there from people who aren't that good with computers :)
What I'm thinking is a real-life open-source "tech tree".
If we ever need this, I wouldn’t count on the ability to watch YouTube videos.
Books printed on acid-free paper or clay tablets do not copy as easily as bits, but are a lot more durable.
An alternative is to make lots of digital copies of sites like these. That’s cheaper than printing them, but a bit less durable.
I wouldn’t know which of these would be the statistically optimal (as in: information isn’t destroyed, will be found by those who need it, and can be read) method, but I don’t think YouTube is.
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