20 Mar
2013
20 Mar
'13
2:17 p.m.
On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 03/20/2013 12:30 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I was gonna say, who are we saving the data for if not
archaeologists? Digital data is a lot more difficult to
preserve than clay tablets or even parchment; still, unlike
magnetic media, the data at least exists in the visible
spectrum (if not to the naked eye). I don't think there's
a high likelihood of archaeologists finding any of our
flash drives still readable after 1000 years (the charge on
the floating gates will likely have dissipated by then,
especially for low-charge cells like MLC), let alone figure
out how to read them. On the other hand, all my pictures
Other than archeologists, in 1000 years, who is going to WANT our data?
The same people who are now interested in Babylonian letters of credit, Egyptian
hieroglyphics, the Dead Sea Scrolls and other such worthless garbage. from France in college that I took on film have a
pretty
good chance of boring people far in the future. Optical
media (at least on media that doesn't decay, like some
CD-R dyes) should be likewise preserved, though we've
certainly seen some unexpected failings in shellac records
as well due to binder breakdown.
- Dave