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The Near and Far Future of Libraries

Long Now's Dr. Laura Welcher and other archival thinkers on the future of libraries.

by Andrew Warner
Mar 2, 02015

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The Near and Far Future of Libraries“, an article in the new publication “Hopes & Fears”, includes an interview with Long Now’s Dr. Laura Welcher on the dangers of the “digital dark age”.

Laura Welcher is Director of the Rosetta Project, The Long Now Foundation’s language-preservation effort that explores storage mediums that will last thousands of years.

 

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