I almost had data disappear trying to move it from PC to PC then to Mac to Mac. Stuff that I had written in 1999 or 2000. Crazy how you could lose it all.
the sad truth is that if the "digital dark age" comes then it will just be a new shade of the one that is already going on. Hard to argue that there hasn't been a dark age going on since the 1890s or so. The catty-corner conversations really sums it up well
There's also an element of survivorship bias here- yes, some vellum scrolls and some cuneiform tablets have survived thousands of years, but many more have not. As you seem to be pointing out, many analog media don't last a particularly long time either- film-based media have a tendency to degrade into vinegar and you'd be hard-pressed to find an 8mm projector nowadays for the most part. And yet very few people seem to have latched onto the fact that there is already an "analog dark age" that has existed for a long long time.
4:37 However Digital Sheep will probably go extinct or live in captivity forever in order to produce this product. But at least it will prevent a Digital Dark Age.
What if you just had your media on an external hard-drive. Legacy backwards compatibility isn't that hard is it? He has a point though I wonder. We did lose the tape players that could run the moon landing tapes, so.. True about printing out photos for photo albums. Luv photo albums. Wait for it, "Digital vellum", $.
Bruh what happens when all those facilities that are backing up your data get hit by an EMP or a solar flare? This is what this guy is talking about, there also might be a chance that a lot of what we have now backed up on the internet won't exist in 50 or 100 years from now. There's already a ton of websites and internet history that is just completely lost because no one took web archiving that seriously in the early years of it.
I almost had data disappear trying to move it from PC to PC then to Mac to Mac. Stuff that I had written in 1999 or 2000. Crazy how you could lose it all.
"Digital sheep"? Can't believe they missed the glaring opportunity for a solid Electric Sheep joke!
the sad truth is that if the "digital dark age" comes then it will just be a new shade of the one that is already going on. Hard to argue that there hasn't been a dark age going on since the 1890s or so. The catty-corner conversations really sums it up well
There's also an element of survivorship bias here- yes, some vellum scrolls and some cuneiform tablets have survived thousands of years, but many more have not. As you seem to be pointing out, many analog media don't last a particularly long time either- film-based media have a tendency to degrade into vinegar and you'd be hard-pressed to find an 8mm projector nowadays for the most part. And yet very few people seem to have latched onto the fact that there is already an "analog dark age" that has existed for a long long time.
big companies can take on the task of making copies as the media gets older. problem solved
"you're the genius, figure it out".... Mo Attitude
4:37 However Digital Sheep will probably go extinct or live in captivity forever in order to produce this product. But at least it will prevent a Digital Dark Age.
0:04 He's the Computer Narrator isn't he?
2:43 We have AI to record
Mo! Your HAIR!!!
What if you just had your media on an external hard-drive. Legacy backwards compatibility isn't that hard is it? He has a point though I wonder. We did lose the tape players that could run the moon landing tapes, so.. True about printing out photos for photo albums. Luv photo albums. Wait for it, "Digital vellum", $.
It's called backup your data folks. No rocket science here. More important things to worry about.
Misses the point: One day there may not be anything to read your backed up data.
@@ColonialFifer yup. That part.
Bruh what happens when all those facilities that are backing up your data get hit by an EMP or a solar flare? This is what this guy is talking about, there also might be a chance that a lot of what we have now backed up on the internet won't exist in 50 or 100 years from now. There's already a ton of websites and internet history that is just completely lost because no one took web archiving that seriously in the early years of it.
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CC CHAPMAN Right? It's called eBay. This chap is just babbling away about nothing new.