[SIGCIS-Members] Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk

adam spring adamspring at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 10:08:45 PST 2015


Do you think one of the problems is, to some extent, that the viewpoint
presented by Vint is from the late 90s? ie Stewart Brand.

Not had time to look at other postings yet, so can't make a complete
assessment. However, that was the thing that struck me when I looked at one
of the BBC write ups.

Adam

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:

> And at the University of Washington, I've worked on a Multi-Lifespan
> Information Systems project, the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal.  This is
> a real-world application of design principles to support both the
> bit-integrity and authenticity of digital documents, in this case the
> audiovisual record of interviews with members of the International Criminal
> Tribunal - Rwanda formed in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
> Last year, I conducted maintenance on the archive and we learned a great
> deal about the challenges involved - publication pending.  :-)
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Len Shustek <len at shustek.com> wrote:
>
>> At 03:07 AM 2/13/2015, Brian Randell wrote:
>>
>>> > Digital material including key historical documents could be lost
>>> forever because programs to view them will become defunct, says Vint Cerf
>>>
>>
>> We've been beating that drum for a while at the Computer History Museum,
>> starting with a short film for the general public called "Digital Dark Age"
>> that we did in 2011 for our permanent "Revolution" exhibition.
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/325/2208
>>
>> The inspiration for that film was my discovery that modern versions of
>> Powerpoint won't open presentations created by Powerpoint 1.0, which was
>> released in 1990. In only twenty years, perfectly preserved bits were
>> rendered useless.
>>
>> -- Len
>>
>>
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>
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> The Information School
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