Digital data storage may leave future in dark about us, warns Cerf
(E&T): http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/feb/vint-cerf-digital-data.cfm
"Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science taking place in San Jose, California, Vint
Cerf, one of the men credited with the invention of Internet and a
current Vice President of Google, warned relying solely on digital
data storage to keep books, texts and photographs may be
short-sighted."
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This is an area of continuing serious anxiety. I touched on it in CACM
(1999): http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks.html#105
["Bit-Rot Roulette"]. Interestingly, some of the most forward-looking
work in this area is being done by AMPAS - The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscar folks), who are rightly very
concerned about preserving motion picture production and distribution
assets in a digital world.
--Lauren--
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