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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tortell, Philippe
• Young, Margot
• Turin, Mark
• MARGOT YOUNG
• PHILIPPE TORTELL
• MARK TURIN

Titel

THE DIGITAL SHOEBOX

Ist Teil von

• Memory, 2018, p.225-231

Ort / Verlag

Canada: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The digital information of our modern world – text, images, videos, and the like – can be stored and reproduced massively at almost zero cost. It can be easily dispersed in space to preserve it from both the natural world (fire and water) and the political one (tyrants and censors). So why does it seem so difficult to preserve our digital memory? At first blush, we might blame changing digital formats. For example, videos of our children might be on VHS tapes, no longer compatible with current hardware. This problem is certainly real and exacerbated by rapid technological change; modern information storage