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A good article on the digital preservation problem in Popular Mechanics:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4201645.html?page=1
When the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz takes to sea, it carries more than a half-million files with diagrams of the propulsion, electrical and other systems critical to operation. Because this is the 21st. . . Read More
Storing information is easier than ever, but it’s also never been so easy to lose it — forever. We could end up with a modern history gap.
By Charles Piller, LA Times Staff Writer
September 13, 2006
Carter G. Walker remembers the day her memories vanished.
After sending an e-mail to her aunt, the. . . Read More
Original recordings of Apollo moon missions are missing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” a NASA spokesman said on Monday.
Armstrong’s famous space walk, seen by millions of. . . Read More
Community-built content rules
Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy— and how it fits into the even larger world and prospects of “free culture.”
“The design. . . Read More
Long Now collects stories of the “digital dark age”. Originally these were kept in discussion boards, but we have moved this to our blog as of 02007 (Acknowledging that the present will in fact be known as the digital dark age, since all our digital data has no forward migration path.)
I thought that the. . . Read More
Categories go nova
It is fortunate that the leading thinker in “social software” is one of the best speakers in the high-tech world, a hot ticket at any conference that can get him. CLAY SHIRKY gave one of his dazzling presentations Monday, Nov. 14, examining a new dimension in one of the most vexed. . . Read More