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Digital Dark Age On The Media
Digital dark age

Digital Dark Age On The Media

by Alexander Rose
Jun 29, 02015

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On this week’s episode of On the Media, they dive into the digital preservation issue: what would happen if we, as a species, lost access to our electronic records? What if, either by the slow creep of  technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we no longer could draw from the well of of knowledge accrued through the ages? What if we fell into…a digital dark age?

 

 

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