Inventors need to stop. They are the reason we need to buy digital converter boxes to turn our TVs into useful tools come February. They are the reason we are considering getting rid of our gas lawn mowers, just like we got rid of that scythe we used for lawn-mowing.
Actually, inventors need to keep working. They are the reason archives exist, or at least have the romance factor they have, and that is what keeps "the archives"--as a physical location where the old stuff is kept--from being ust a larger, dirtier version of all the other stuff.
Here's a link to a blog, located with help from the good people at icerocket.com, that deals with the people that make progress and keep making new excuses for archives:
http://www.gizmag.com/historic-recordings-by-inventor-of-stereo-sound-are-digitally-re-engin/9746/
I've linked you to one post in particular from the semi-popular gizmag, a website-magazine devoted to forward-thinking people and weird business that keeps things interesting; without them, we wouldn't be obsolete--we'd be pretty much the same as we were yesterday, which might be worse. The first link is to gizmag's version of "interesting people;" the second is a link to today's post, which happens to announce the re-engineering of historic recordings made to demonstrate the concept of "stereophonic sound." At this point, I won't editorialize, I'll just leave it for you to read.
Keep listening.
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