![]() ![]() By 2007, however, all but six per cent had been preserved digitally. A study by the University of Southern California says that in 2000, 75 per cent of the world’s information was still in analogue form. Technology not only rules our present but also helps in preserving the past - the digitisation of manuscripts and old books - and shaping our future as seen in central government’s ‘Digital India’ and ‘Smart City’ projects. From dusty libraries breeding silverfish to slim tabs and smartphones, Kannada is making its journey in the 21st century that is being carried by the revolutionary digital tide. One doesn’t have to flip silverfish from old decaying editions of his books anymore. Kumara Vyasa would write a new epic if he saw that postgraduate students on a crowded express train from Bengaluru to Mysuru were reading out his verses of Aranya Parva from Gadugina Bharata from a tablet and one of them was texting the discussions to a friend in Mumbai.
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