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Digital dark age? gambling with humankind's knowledge
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- Summary
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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 Bra...
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.
Details
- Creator
- German United Distributors
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c2002
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (53 min.) : sd., col., digital
- digital
- video file
- ISBNs
- 9780736589536
- OCLC
- ocn709669057
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Changes in Recording History (4:28) -- Digital Continuity (4:46) -- Compact Discs (5:44) -- How Long Can Data Be Safely Stored? (3:33) -- Paradigm Shift (5:46) -- History of Computers and Emulation (5:01) -- Migration and Film Digitization (3:06) -- Preserving for Prosterity (4:51) -- Deciphering Data (4:48) -- Rosetta Disc (4:30) -- Preserving the Culture's Identity (4:48)