Development in electronic science have transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people’s minds. It depends very much on the retentive power of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests; interminable arguments were thus the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was adequately free from these shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers have been largely overcome. Recording on audio and video cassette now show not only what happened, but also who did or said what including how and when.
But one thing is for sure, electronic science is ever evolving and new invention are soon to replaced the old ones.
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