Posted on 02/13/2015 1:55:40 PM PST by BenLurkin
He fears that future generations will have little or no record of the 21st Century as we enter what he describes as a "digital Dark Age".
Mr Cerf made his comments at a large science conference in San Jose.
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His focus now is to resolve a new problem that threatens to eradicate our history.
Our life, our memories, our most cherished family photographs increasingly exist as bits of information - on our hard drives or in "the cloud". But as technology moves on, they risk being lost in the wake of an accelerating digital revolution.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
They have raised how many millions for Obama and the left??
Now they are worried... lol
As a matter of fact, all will be dark.
“Digital dark age?
Das racisss!
I used to work with Vint Cerf at MCI. Nice man, but almost deaf. Vint, the real developer of the internet (ArpaNet) was as shocked as all of us when Al Gore announced that “HE” actually invented the internet!
A big emp either man made or from a massive solar flare would put us back for decades or perhaps much longer
Bring it on. I have the last of the V8 Interceptors, a sawed off shotgun, and a loyal but feisty mutt.
Together we will conquer the roads in the coming white-line nightmare.
Their world crumbled, the cities exploded... A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear... Men began to feed on men...On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
the jpeg and gif ..filetypes have been around since....decades ago
the relatively new and increasingly popular RAW formatt..aint likely going anywhere as there isnt anything to take its place in the entire world of digital imaging.
these people smoke too much weed....and HAVE to SHARE their fantasy futures I guess..
bump for later
As do we all.
The larger the government gets the harder it is to control and manage. We the people are well trained and mobile.
Lock and load!
They say people don’t believe in heroes anymore. Well damn them! You and me, Axe, we’re gonna give them back their heroes!
Oh no! What will people do without facebook! /sarc
Communicate directly from mind to mind via hardware implanted into their brains at birth.
Which is to say == right when they come out of the bottle.
Digital has essentially no mass so acceleration should be awesome .
I’m thinking this will be a great step forward for civilization. Imagine, people having to think for themselves !
It’s worse than that. Forget the digital dark ages, that comes after Z-Day when all the electricity is gone and so forth.
What’s worse is ‘remediated history’. Which we’ve already scene with removal of links to controversial news stories, political positions that have become untenable for the time.
Duran same ting.
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