Herr Barnack Posted February 15, 2015 Share #1 Posted February 15, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Food for thought: BBC News - Google's Vint Cerf warns of 'digital Dark Age' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Hi Herr Barnack, Take a look here Is there a digital dark age coming?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
thighslapper Posted February 16, 2015 Share #2 Posted February 16, 2015 depends entirely on the end users wish to access old material ........ ...... plenty of originally coded old Atari/BBC/Spectrum etc games about with software that emulates the old operating systems ...... ...... v little when it comes to reading old emails and some prehistoric word processing formats etc. as the old software doesn't run on current platforms due to fundamental hardware architecture changes ...... because there is minimal demand ....... No different from the boxes of taped music cassettes I junked years ago .... or the videotapes .... the market will provide where there is a need ...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted February 16, 2015 Share #3 Posted February 16, 2015 Colour film fades! I reviewed an 'archive' for a scientific client some years ago which consisted of transparencies kept in their original boxes in cool and dry conditions. Most had still faded to a state which meant that they were unusable. So unless stored very carefully, slides will disappear. Just one example. And when you look back at information not a lot actually survives for vastly long periods (probably just as well in many cases). Really useful information will survive no doubt, but do we really need all the clutter of every single piece, or even a small percentage (still a vast amount), of data being archived? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 16, 2015 Share #4 Posted February 16, 2015 The Egyptians taught us how - just hack it into Granite an store it in a desert... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Barnack Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share #5 Posted February 16, 2015 ...hack it into Granite... That must be a Photoshop tool that I've managed to overlook up till now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted February 16, 2015 Share #6 Posted February 16, 2015 That must be a Photoshop tool that I've managed to overlook up till now. You need version 1000BC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted February 16, 2015 Share #7 Posted February 16, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) That must be a Photoshop tool that I've managed to overlook up till now. Edit > Chisel (adjustable parameters: depth and width) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted February 18, 2015 Share #8 Posted February 18, 2015 That must be a Photoshop tool that I've managed to overlook up till now. I think you need to use Photobelisk. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornnb Posted March 21, 2015 Share #9 Posted March 21, 2015 As long as civilisation doesn't collapse people will develop archiving and heritage solutions Such already exists for the web: Internet Archive: Wayback Machine Indeed I suppose one could call it the great library of the modern world. Let's hope Caesar doesn't arrive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted March 21, 2015 Share #10 Posted March 21, 2015 The Egyptians taught us how - just hack it into Granite an store it in a desert... I believe these days that is called "an archival print." Anyway, as a documentary/journalistic photographer, this has always been my biggest concern with digital photography. Not so much preserving "my" photographs - but preserving the stories of people I've photographed. I am glad someone in the tech industry is giving it some thought. Although I'm not sure just throwing more technology at the problem (preserve it in "the cloud") is much of an advance.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted March 21, 2015 Share #11 Posted March 21, 2015 I believe these days that is called "an archival print." Ageed, but I'm not sure anyone in the future will be interested in my photographs - who knows. I recently went through my old Kodachromes, going back to the 1970s and they look as good as the day I got them back form the lab (at least that's how I perceive them). I even still have an old Leica slide projector I bought in 1992 that works perfectly, but maybe I better buy up some of the globes so I can use it for the next two hundred years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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