adam hochschild, can you top that? >> i may be more optimistic than michael and joe because there is still a lot of paper around. we print stuff out an awful lot. my house is filled with paper. i suspect that is true for a lot of other people as well. everybody predicted that, you know, the rise of computers would lead to the paperless office but look at how much paper is told today and how many filing cabinets there are in offices. i think in one way or another a paper trail will survive, if not, certainly an electronic copy. and new technology means new things. for example, in my book about the spanish civil war, was the first time i had worked in a period of history that was recent enough so that there were oral histories of the people i was writing about and 50-60 video interviews made with the veterans before they died. i had access to this material. it is on audio disks and video disks and so on. i am oft mystic they will find it. >> let's take your questions now. i have superglued the microphones to the voluntee

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