Are we really in danger of losing our history to the cloud?

If Google's vice president is to be believed we are in danger of losing an entire generation of information to the digital realm. Look to the history book, and you do just that -- look in a real, physical book. Pictorial histories can be found in photo albums. The works of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys, and Charles Dickens are stored in real, tangible formats. But now just about everything is stored digitally. Photos are rarely, if ever printed; millions of words are published online each day on blogs, online newspapers, and message boards. These are all important social, political, literary,… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2015-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Atlantic | 2020-08-05 18:19:54 UTC ]
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