On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and > yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades. > We haven't noticed only because we've changed technologies so much in > the short lifespan of digital computers, that very few have run into > data access issues with old media. > > YET.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project 1984: BBC runs big project to compile massive 20th Century version of the Domesday Book, a kind of time capsule so that future generations can see how we lived, etc. Stores it on Laserdisc. 2002: Whole new project set up to make that data readable again - part of which requires finding any working Laserdisc equipment. -- Yoz
