Robin Tew wrote:
> All this talk about poor recordkeeping causing/not causing disasters
brought to mind an old Arthur C. Clarke story, The Nine Billion Names of
God, about a Buddist sect seeking to compile all the true names of God.
The kicker was their belief that once the list was completed, mankind
would have achieved it purpose and the world would cease to exist.

Robin, you forgot to mention how that story ends: as the last name is
compiled, and the staff are leaving the super computer complex where the
work is being done, they look up into the night sky and notice that the
stars are disappearing one by one......

Still sends chills up my spine!

Dwight Wallis, CRM
Records Administrator
Multnomah County Fleet, Records, Electronics, Distribution and Stores
(FREDS)
1620 S.E. 190th Avenue
Portland, OR 97233
Phone: (503)988-3741
Fax: (503)988-3754
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