Digital Dark Age - Revision history

https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Digital_Dark_Age Digital Dark Age - Revision history 2026-04-22T10:27:04Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.3 https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=5395&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 22:39, 23 October 2011 2011-10-23T22:39:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:39, 23 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway in his essay, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>Preservation in the Digital World<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del><ref>Preservation in the Digital World. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paul Conway. Head, </del>Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011. </ref>Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity of the media used to store the information has decreased equivalently. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway in his essay, Preservation in the Digital World<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Conway, Paul. </ins>Preservation in the Digital World. Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011. </ref>Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity of the media used to store the information has decreased equivalently. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians -- a Dark Age -- because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref>Hillis, Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians -- a Dark Age -- because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref>Hillis, Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=5394&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 22:38, 23 October 2011 2011-10-23T22:38:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:38, 23 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Definition===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Definition===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </del>The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway in his essay, ''Preservation in the Digital World''<ref>Preservation in the Digital World. Paul Conway. Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011. </ref>Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity of the media used to store the information has decreased equivalently. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway in his essay, ''Preservation in the Digital World''<ref>Preservation in the Digital World. Paul Conway. Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011. </ref>Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity of the media used to store the information has decreased equivalently. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians -- a Dark Age -- because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref>Hillis, Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ref> because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ref> because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To prevent the tragic loss </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">digital data</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Long Now Foundation </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">working to etch information into high resolution metal disks and permastructures.<ref>Brand</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Stewart</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">About</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Long Now Foundation</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</ins>:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//longnow.org/about/ Accessed Jan 2011</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> Together </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this Rosetta Digital Language Archive</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Long Now Foundation created The Rosetta Disk</ins>, an <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">object intended </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">durable archive of human languages</ins>.<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Concept</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rosetta Project</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A Long Now Foundation </ins>Library <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Human Language</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://rosettaproject</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">org/disk/concept/</ins></ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Along with the Long Server<ref>Long Server. http://www.longserver.org/</ins></<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Long Viewer, The Rosetta Disk is of one facet </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Long Now Foundation's 10</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">000-Year Library</ins>.<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Brand</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Stewart. </ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10,000-Year Library</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Published April 11, 2001</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://www</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">kurzweilai</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">net/the-10000-year</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">library Accessed Jan 2011</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Former University </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">California</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Berkeley librarian Peter Layman points out, "When we know a book </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">important</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we</del>...<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tell a publisher</del>: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">print it on acid-free paper</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">And </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decent library air-conditioning it will last 500. years If you want to preserve something else</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like a newspaper</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">microfilm it. We know there is a 500-year life to microfilm properly cared for. But what do we do with digital documents? What we do today is we refresh them every time there's a change in technology-or every 18 months, whichever comes first. This is </del>an <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expensive approach! We need a digital equivalent </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">microfilm, </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">500-year solution</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del><ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Layman, Peter</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Escaping </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Published in </del>Library <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Journal vol</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">124. Issue 2, p46-49</del>.</ref></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div></<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blockquote</del>></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our art</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes"</del>.<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hillis</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Danny in Escaping </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Digital Dark Age</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">By Stewart Brand</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Published in Library Journal vol</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">124</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Issue 2, p46</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">49</del>.</ref></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td></tr> </table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=5393&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 22:20, 23 October 2011 2011-10-23T22:20:18Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:20, 23 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Definition===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Definition===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway in his essay, ''Preservation in the Digital World''<ref>Preservation in the Digital World. Paul Conway. Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011. </ref>Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity of the media used to store the information has decreased equivalently</ins>. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ref> because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ref> because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref>Hillis, Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref>Hillis, Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Related Reading===</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Preservation in the Digital World. Paul Conway. Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996 http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td></tr> </table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=4437&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 22:14, 28 June 2011 2011-06-28T22:14:32Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:14, 28 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del></ref> because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ref> because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote></div></td></tr> </table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=4435&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 22:14, 28 June 2011 2011-06-28T22:14:11Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:14, 28 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">because of the fact that information is not stable. It </ins>keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Information </del>keeps transferring itself into different formats. </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote></div></td></tr> </table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=4263&oldid=prev Caseorganic: moved Digital Decay to Digital Dark Age over redirect 2011-06-16T23:43:43Z

<p>moved <a href="/index.php/Digital_Decay" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Decay">Digital Decay</a> to <a href="/index.php/Digital_Dark_Age" title="Digital Dark Age">Digital Dark Age</a> over redirect</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:43, 16 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=4015&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 22:00, 4 June 2011 2011-06-04T22:00:21Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:00, 4 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Former University of California, Berkeley librarian Peter Layman points out, "When we know a book is important, we...tell a publisher: print it on acid-free paper. And with decent library air-conditioning it will last 500. years If you want to preserve something else, like a newspaper, microfilm it. We know there is a 500-year life to microfilm properly cared for. But what do we do with digital documents? What we do today is we refresh them every time there's a change in technology-or every 18 months, whichever comes first. This is an expensive approach! We need a digital equivalent to microfilm, a 500-year solution."<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ibid</del>.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Former University of California, Berkeley librarian Peter Layman points out, "When we know a book is important, we...tell a publisher: print it on acid-free paper. And with decent library air-conditioning it will last 500. years If you want to preserve something else, like a newspaper, microfilm it. We know there is a 500-year life to microfilm properly cared for. But what do we do with digital documents? What we do today is we refresh them every time there's a change in technology-or every 18 months, whichever comes first. This is an expensive approach! We need a digital equivalent to microfilm, a 500-year solution."<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Layman, Peter. Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div></blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div></blockquote></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ibid</del>.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hillis, Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Related Reading===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Related Reading===</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>moved <a href="/index.php/Digital_Dark_Age" title="Digital Dark Age">Digital Dark Age</a> to <a href="/index.php/Digital_Decay" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Decay">Digital Decay</a> over redirect</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:49, 4 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

Caseorganic https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=4012&oldid=prev Caseorganic at 21:48, 4 June 2011 2011-06-04T21:48:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:48, 4 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Definition===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Definition===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">loss </del>is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decay </ins>is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>moved <a href="/index.php/Digital_Decay" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Decay">Digital Decay</a> to <a href="/index.php/Digital_Dark_Age" title="Digital Dark Age">Digital Dark Age</a></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:47, 4 June 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

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