I want to pick an interesting Post by Thomas Tessarolo titled " If YouTube is gone , "an argument that is very curious and disturbing in some respects. Not long ago, during an episode of Quark Piero Angela, has discussed the consistency of digital information in relation to the neo-digital photography. In recent years digital photography has clearly eclipsed traditional photography with the introduction of cameras in mobile phones and digital cameras to lower costs of good quality. There was, therefore, a radical change in the management of the photographs that are on CD, DVD - or the PC itself - their ideal of conservation, preservation and display. The main question that arose from the transmission was: Will our children or grandchildren to see the "old" CD with our pictures?
I still have faded Polaroid of the seventies, as I happened to recall photographs - really old - taken between 1940 and 1960! While these photos have lost momentum and the time has left its mark, no doubt remains that were preserved more or less discreetly over more than half a century. Also I had no problem for "display", being proposed on a substrate analog! If we consider that I can not read disks written 3 inches and a quarter in 1995, the issue could begin to be worrying.
ALEXANDRIA DOT NET
What happened to the library of Alexandria , a fire that destroyed an important heritage that no one is now able to quantify, it is perhaps a repeatable event? What would happen if an electromagnetic wave befell enough power on earth could reset all the digital information stored today? Sure, there would be many other problems, see bank accounts, stall (or collapse) of the western economy, etc. ... etc. ... a real massacre. However, this - remote - possibility is accumonata the same way as an environmental disaster caused by the fall of an asteroid! Is it true?
The circle is closed
What could be accessed in a certain sense, quite curious. Among the services offered online on the Internet, blogs are the most popular. Imagine what would happen if the server of our blog shut or suffer an injury - including backups! Blogs (The Post) are usually written directly online, there is no local copy, at least I, for example, do not possess it (I will provide ...).
We should start thinking to print on all issued post so he can one day rebuild the blog compared to a total destruction of digital material. The digital, therefore, is no longer safe or analog?
A printed photograph is subject to wear and tear, dust, light, etc. ... However, even a CD or DVD is damaged, despite maintaining the data in a way - apparently - more stable (not sure) of any other analog media.
It seems the only solution is to use the digital, even for archival purposes, but at the same time continue to use the classic mode of storage.
Analog -> Digital -> Analog
The books, for example, have a duration long enough if we consider that even today you can read texts dating before Christ! In addition, some information is not lost with time. In a photograph, for example, information is the predominant light, the tones, the photo itself. This, on a substrate analog, is therefore subject to greater wear. In a book, however, information is more stable and lasting. A text with pages worn at the edges or yellowed by time and continues to lie completely still its main information: the text.
However, this solution a return to analog can be applied with a certain simplicity in very specific contexts, such as pictures or text precisely. The music and other digital information typically require alternative approaches to implementation is not simple. A piece of music, for example, can be stored in the form of the score, as a set of sheets of paper, but it is not a copy of the original. Videos are too complex to be stored in other forms.
In my opinion this is a very important topic in a digital age such as ours. The fact that there are no precedents in this regard allertino that there is not a sufficient excuse to not think about it carefully. If ever a disaster were to occur Digital important proportions, here are springing up like mushrooms and company initiatives to the preservation of digital data.
Why wait for the inevitable and not think of a solution right now?
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