Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'
I feel like we are already experiencing that. I have a drawer full of pictures given to me by my parents, some of them 100 years old,but I can't open pictures I took with my digital camera 10 years ago,because the CDs I burnt them to are unreadable. Obviously the answer to that is that I should have printed at least some of them,but I don't know anyone who prints pictures nowadays. Nowadays I backup all of them to Picassa(google plus albums),but I have no idea what happens if I can't pay for monthly storage anymore? Or if I die and no one knows my google password? All of that data will be gone permanently.