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The coming dark age
Topic Started: Aug 6 2015, 07:19 AM (178 Views)
big al
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Google's Vint Cerf warns of 'digital Dark Age'

I first encountered its beginnings about 40 years ago when digital data on previous projects began to become irretrievable.

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Mikhailoh
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I worry about that as well. A physical archive can be preserved. Digital formats fade when the technology disappears.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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kluurs
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Keep wondering if the sun were to do some wonderful magnetic storm - what would be left - let alone how long it would take to get things back up? Banks and such - even though things are copied into various places - if giant magnetic whatever knocks everything out - would any of that survive?
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Copper
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Let's add this to the serious conspiracies thread.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Chris Aher
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Mr. Cerf is one of the smartest people that I have ever met. He was CTO of the company that I worked for until Verizon bought us and he moved on to Google. I worked for the international subsidiary and was involved in the international implementation of VoIP in the late 90's. I coordinated with his team often since they were responsible for the domestic VoIP efforts.

I strongly suspect that his thinking on the subject is quite a bit further along than expressed in the article. It is a serious long term issue but there are a number of possible approaches that could work.
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Chris
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Aqua Letifer
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Mikhailoh
Aug 6 2015, 07:40 AM
I worry about that as well. A physical archive can be preserved. Digital formats fade when the technology disappears.
Historiographers have been ranting about this since the debut of digital archives.

They're not wrong.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
kluurs
Aug 6 2015, 10:34 AM
Keep wondering if the sun were to do some wonderful magnetic storm - what would be left - let alone how long it would take to get things back up? Banks and such - even though things are copied into various places - if giant magnetic whatever knocks everything out - would any of that survive?
Faraday Cage?
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kluurs
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Axtremus
Aug 6 2015, 11:56 AM
kluurs
Aug 6 2015, 10:34 AM
Keep wondering if the sun were to do some wonderful magnetic storm - what would be left - let alone how long it would take to get things back up? Banks and such - even though things are copied into various places - if giant magnetic whatever knocks everything out - would any of that survive?
Faraday Cage?
brother of John Cage?
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George K
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kluurs
Aug 6 2015, 12:22 PM
Axtremus
Aug 6 2015, 11:56 AM
kluurs
Aug 6 2015, 10:34 AM
Keep wondering if the sun were to do some wonderful magnetic storm - what would be left - let alone how long it would take to get things back up? Banks and such - even though things are copied into various places - if giant magnetic whatever knocks everything out - would any of that survive?
Faraday Cage?
brother of John Cage?
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Wait a minute, you mean the fact the caption I posted for the Walrus wearing the bucket on I Can Has Cheeseburger will not enter the historical record and be studied b6 archaeologists 1000s of years from now?
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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