Multimedia Collection
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
VHS
60 minutes
Z701.3 .C65 I7 1997
Into the Future is about the hidden crisis of the digital information age. It asks if digitally stored information and knowledge will survive into the future. Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time? What happened to reel to reel? Can we still read those magnetic tapes from early Voyager probes into outer space? What about CD-ROMS? And even Windows 2.2?
A sequel to the award-winning Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record, Into the Future features, among many others, such shapers and philosophers of the Information Age as Peter Norton (founder of Norton Utilities) and Tim Berners-Lee (father of the World Wide Web).
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