I wonder if we’re living in a future dark age because so much data is going to rot away. People are trying to copy things off rotting floppies and CDs and such. A lot of digital knowledge will be lost if we keep it on media that requires electricity, power, a specific OS or computer program, etc to access. On the other hand, we still print a lot of material on paper.
Small example: in my job, there is a well known first application of some stuff. That was a groundbreaking program written in the 70s. Most copies got lost/broken, one is known to remain, but anyways no one had a compatible OS, so it is effectively unusable. (Don’t ask more details, I don’t know them)
I wonder if we’re living in a future dark age because so much data is going to rot away. People are trying to copy things off rotting floppies and CDs and such. A lot of digital knowledge will be lost if we keep it on media that requires electricity, power, a specific OS or computer program, etc to access. On the other hand, we still print a lot of material on paper.
Small example: in my job, there is a well known first application of some stuff. That was a groundbreaking program written in the 70s. Most copies got lost/broken, one is known to remain, but anyways no one had a compatible OS, so it is effectively unusable. (Don’t ask more details, I don’t know them)