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Digital Dark Age? Gambling with Humankind’s Knowledge
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. (53
minutes, color)
Copyright date: 2002
ORDER CODE: FFMBVL33079V
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ORDER CODE: FFMBVL33079DVD
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