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

[adam spring]

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:12 PM, adam spring <adamspring at gmail.com> wrote:

> We toughed upon it a little bit in this article:
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5455818&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5455818
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:08 PM, adam spring <adamspring at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 Digital material including key historical documents could be lost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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>>> --
>>> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
>>> Ph.D. Candidate
>>> The Information School
>>> University of Washington
>>>
>>> An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
>>> engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
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>> Adam P. Spring
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