Digital dark age? Gambling with humankind's knowledge
Description
Compact and portable, digitized information is an attractive alternative to bulky books, analog media, and emulsion-based photographs-but can it stand the test of time? In this program, Stewart Brand, co-inventor of the TCP/IP Internet protocol, and others in the know assess the rapid proliferation of digitization; confront the alarming risk of massive data loss through technology obsolescence, platform incompatibilities, and storage media degradation; explore the potentially catastrophic impact of data loss on cultural identity; and outline some of the efforts being made to stave off a digital dark age.
Runtime
53 min
Subjects
- Business enterprises (436)
- Cyberspace (95)
- Technology (1161)
- Business (3110)
- Information society (81)
- Computer crimes (87)
- Computer security (97)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2002
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