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Title: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: Wilikon on February 15, 2015, 12:19:59 AM ... A.k.a. “bit rot”. Piles of digitised material – from blogs, tweets, pictures and videos, to official documents such as court rulings and emails – may be lost forever because the programs needed to view them will become defunct, Google’s vice-president has warned. Humanity’s first steps into the digital world could be lost to future historians, Vint Cerf told the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Jose, California, warning that we faced a “forgotten generation, or even a forgotten century” through what he called “bit rot”, where old computer files become useless junk. Cerf called for the development of “digital vellum” to preserve old software and hardware so that out-of-date files could be recovered no matter how old they are. “When you think about the quantity of documentation from our daily lives that is captured in digital form, like our interactions by email, people’s tweets, and all of the world wide web, it’s clear that we stand to lose an awful lot of our history,” he said. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-boss-warns-forgotten-century-email-photos-vint-cerf Title: Re: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: username18333 on February 15, 2015, 12:52:02 AM Quote from: Richard Stallman. “Free Software Is Even More Important Now.” sec.: 7. 15 Feb. 235. link=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html In computing, cooperation includes redistributing exact copies of a program to other users. It also includes distributing your changed versions to them. Free software encourages these forms of cooperation, while proprietary software forbids them. It forbids redistribution of copies, and by denying users the source code, it blocks them from making changes. SaaSS has the same effects: if your computing is done over the web in someone else's server, by someone else's copy of a program, you can't see it or touch the software that does your computing, so you can't redistribute it or change it. (Red colorization mine.)It is merely the history of a sheople. Title: Re: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: BADecker on February 16, 2015, 07:02:53 PM We see the records of past peoples' inscribed in stone or brick on the walls of their ancient temples and other, decaying buildings. In a few places records have been inscribed on gold leaf or plate, on bronze, or on other metals that have remained over thousands of years.
They lost it all. Why shouldn't we? Besides, will we need any of it, personally, after we are dead? :) Title: Re: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: Wilikon on February 16, 2015, 07:52:48 PM We see the records of past peoples' inscribed in stone or brick on the walls of their ancient temples and other, decaying buildings. In a few places records have been inscribed on gold leaf or plate, on bronze, or on other metals that have remained over thousands of years. They lost it all. Why shouldn't we? Besides, will we need any of it, personally, after we are dead? :) Just as some needs the bible now , first spoken, then written by others thousand of years ago... :) Title: Re: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: BADecker on February 16, 2015, 08:00:52 PM We see the records of past peoples' inscribed in stone or brick on the walls of their ancient temples and other, decaying buildings. In a few places records have been inscribed on gold leaf or plate, on bronze, or on other metals that have remained over thousands of years. They lost it all. Why shouldn't we? Besides, will we need any of it, personally, after we are dead? :) Just as some needs the bible now , first spoken, then written by others thousand of years ago... :) Can't destroy the Bible. :) Title: Re: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: Wilikon on February 16, 2015, 08:05:44 PM We see the records of past peoples' inscribed in stone or brick on the walls of their ancient temples and other, decaying buildings. In a few places records have been inscribed on gold leaf or plate, on bronze, or on other metals that have remained over thousands of years. They lost it all. Why shouldn't we? Besides, will we need any of it, personally, after we are dead? :) Just as some needs the bible now , first spoken, then written by others thousand of years ago... :) Can't destroy the Bible. :) DNA based Solid State Memory... Title: Re: Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk Post by: BADecker on February 16, 2015, 08:13:59 PM We see the records of past peoples' inscribed in stone or brick on the walls of their ancient temples and other, decaying buildings. In a few places records have been inscribed on gold leaf or plate, on bronze, or on other metals that have remained over thousands of years. They lost it all. Why shouldn't we? Besides, will we need any of it, personally, after we are dead? :) Just as some needs the bible now , first spoken, then written by others thousand of years ago... :) Can't destroy the Bible. :) DNA based Solid State Memory... Probably the best way to prove the Bible, until God returns, that is. :) |