Topic: Digital Preservation

Emmons encourages students to create physical backups of her online materials, expressing skepticism about the longevity of electronic formats like Amazon Kindle. She details where to find her newsletters and archives on Facebook, emphasizing the importance of "solid form" books for preserving alchemical history against potential digital erasure.

The logistics of interviewing international researchers like Sylvie Ivanova and Anatoly Fomenko are discussed, noting Ivanova's preference for in-person meetings over Skype. Concerns are raised regarding the availability of Fomenko's multi-volume works, specifically the volatility of digital formats like Kindle compared to physical books. The speaker emphasizes the importance of preserving physical copies of this controversial research to prevent information loss.