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"The internet is forever." So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material — such as stolen photographs — permanently from the web. Yet paradoxically the vast and growing digital sphere faces enormous losses. Google has been criticized for failing to ensure access to its archive of Usenet newsgroup postings that stretch back to the early 1980s. And now internet pioneer Vint Cerf has warned of a "digital dark age" that would result in decades of data — emails, photographs, website postings — becoming lost or un-readable.
Millions of paper records more than 500 years old exist today. But your entire family photo collection could be lost forever with just a single hard drive failure. Stone tablets, parchment, paper, printed photographs have all lasted through the centuries. But some of our data may not. What do we do about preserving the digital deluge? Read more...
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