we live in a world where the cloud rules, where digital books wear out faster than physical books¹ and where encryption makes content unreadable (without decryption) regardless of whether or not it's vulnerable. what do we have to show for all our work, all our memories? at this point in history it's next to nothing, even though our potential to preserve is at a maximum. i am not against preservation and archiving using technology. i simply want to bring one of our biggest overlooked problems into the light; our behaviors which are turning this era into an inevitable digital great unconformity²...
digital preservation
digital preservation
digital preservation
we live in a world where the cloud rules, where digital books wear out faster than physical books¹ and where encryption makes content unreadable (without decryption) regardless of whether or not it's vulnerable. what do we have to show for all our work, all our memories? at this point in history it's next to nothing, even though our potential to preserve is at a maximum. i am not against preservation and archiving using technology. i simply want to bring one of our biggest overlooked problems into the light; our behaviors which are turning this era into an inevitable digital great unconformity²...