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https://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/0441015085 https://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/04410150... describes a different problem. In
by akkartik 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/0441015085 https://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/04410150... describes a different problem. In the 27th century the 21st century is considered a dark age not because anything particularly bad happened but just because data archival technology took a big step back. Early storage media were far more fragile than paper.
- BillyBreen 8y agoI was hoping someone would reference that. One of my favorite Stross books, and a decade since reading it I frequently think back to it and worry about this mass of data we’re creating and obsoleting each year.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago> Early storage media were far more fragile than paper. That's true, but on a timeline of human history that's a pretty brief window and there was a lot of distrust in the medium at that time. We're going to have ~30 years where they have to rely on the old methodologies still, but the 20th century is a whole new ball game. They won't be able to retrieve circa 2000 floppy disks, no, but I feel like a lot of what's been around for the last decade is going to probably stick around.