Archiving Digital Data an Unsolved Problem
Charlene Barina November 20th, 2006
A posting on Slashdot (geek central, for those of you unaware) concerning what will happen to digital files someday and whether future generations will be able to access them…the US National Archivist is quoted in it.
I read a similar bit a while back proposing that archeologists will eventually be supplanted by anthropologists who will sift through digital detritus and random spam emails in order to learn about those vanished civilations. Based on that trail, they’ll all think this era was obsessed with hair regrowth and penny stocks!
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