Google’s Vint Cerf warns of ‘digital Dark Age’

“Vint Cerf, a ‘father of the internet’, says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost.  Currently a Google vice-president, he believes this could occur as hardware and software become obsolete.  He fears that future generations will have little or no record of the 21st Century as we enter what he describes as a ‘digital Dark Age’.  Vint Cerf is promoting an idea to preserve every piece of software and hardware so that it never becomes obsolete – just like what happens in a museum – but in digital form, in servers in the cloud.  If his idea works, the memories we hold so dear could be accessible for generations to come.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31450389

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