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dcnovice -> Lost Content: "A Digital Dark Age" (2/15/2015 4:44:28 PM)
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Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet", says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost.
Currently a Google vice-president, he believes this could occur as hardware and software become obsolete.
He fears that future generations will have little or no record of the 21st Century as we enter what he describes as a "digital Dark Age".
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31450389
This story has been "trending" on Facebook, so I gave it a look/listen. Cerf makes an awfully good point about lost content. I know huge chunks of my work are gone forever. (I also know English literature will survive that. [:)])
How "digital vellum" would work isn't entirely clear to me, but I'm glad the need to preserve history is on someone's radar screen in Silicon Valley. It is darkly amusing that, after all the dizzying technological shifts just in my lifetime, the best way to preserve content may well be on paper.
Thoughts, anyone? How do you preserve content/work you want to keep?
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