http://www.cyborganthropology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&feed=atom&action=historyDigital Dark Age - Revision history2024-03-28T22:34:12ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.23.13http://www.cyborganthropology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=5395&oldid=prevCaseorganic at 22:39, 23 October 20112011-10-23T22:39:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness. The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway in his essay, ''Preservation in the Digital World''<ref>Preservation in the Digital World. Paul Conway. Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library. March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011. </ref>Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity of the media used to store the information has decreased equivalently</del>.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital decay is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two major dimensions - space and time"</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but that while "</del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".</del><ref><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Escaping The </del>Digital <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Dark Age</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By Stewart Brand</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Published in </del>Library <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Journal vol</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">124</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Issue 2, p46-49</del></ref> <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">because </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fact that </del>information is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">not stable</del>. It <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">keeps transferring itself </del>into <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">different formats</del>.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The central dilemma of information storage is outlined by Paul Conway </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his essay</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''Preservation in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Digital World''</ins><ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Preservation in the </ins>Digital <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">World</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Paul Conway</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Head, Preservation Department, Yale University </ins>Library. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/ Accessed Jan 2011</ins>. </ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Conway points out that the human capacity to record information has increased exponentially over time while the longevity </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">media used to store the </ins>information <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has decreased equivalently. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">now digital</ins>. It <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay </ins>into <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nothingness</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest the possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians -- a Dark Age -- because nearly all </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">our art</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">science</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">news, and other records are being created and stored on media that </ins>we know <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">can't outlast even our own lifetimes".<ref>Hillis</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Danny in Escaping The Digital Dark Age</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By Stewart Brand</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Published in Library Journal vol</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">124</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Issue 2</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">p46</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">49</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></ref></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Former University </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">California</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Berkeley librarian Peter Layman points out</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"When </del>we know <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a book is important</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">we</del>...<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tell a publisher: print it on acid-free paper</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">And with decent library air-conditioning it will last 500. years If you want to preserve something else</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">like a newspaper, microfilm it. We know there is a 500</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">year life to microfilm properly cared for</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But what do we do with digital documents? What we do today is we refresh them every time there's a change </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technology</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or every 18 months</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">whichever comes first</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an expensive approach! We need a digital equivalent to microfilm, a 500-year solution</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</del><ref><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Layman, Peter. </del>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two major dimensions </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">space and time"</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">..the time dimension </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shrinking"</ins>.<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49</ref> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">because of the fact that information is not stable. It keeps transferring itself into different formats. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This issue lead Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis to suggest </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">possibility that our era might "be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">our art</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">science</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">news</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and other records are being </del>created <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes"</del>.<ref><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hillis</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Danny in Escaping </del>The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Digital Dark Age</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By Stewart </del>Brand. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Published in </del>Library <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Journal vol</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">124. Issue 2</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">p46</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">49</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">To prevent </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tragic loss </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">digital data</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Long Now Foundation is working to etch information into high resolution metal disks and permastructures.<ref>Brand</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stewart. About. The Long Now Foundation. http://longnow.org/about/ Accessed Jan 2011.</ref> Together with this Rosetta Digital Language Archive</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Long Now Foundation </ins>created <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Rosetta Disk, an object intended to be a durable archive of human languages</ins>.<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Concept. The Rosetta Project. A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/</ref> Along with the Long Server<ref>Long Server. http://www.longserver.org/</ref> and the Long Viewer</ins>, The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rosetta Disk is of one facet of The Long Now Foundation's 10,000-Year Library</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref></ins>Brand<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Stewart</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The 10,000-Year </ins>Library. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Published April 11</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001. http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-10000-year</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">library Accessed Jan 2011</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Caseorganichttp://www.cyborganthropology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Digital_Dark_Age&diff=4013&oldid=prevCaseorganic: moved Digital Dark Age to Digital Decay over redirect2011-06-04T21:49:14Z<p>moved <a href="/Digital_Dark_Age" title="Digital Dark Age">Digital Dark Age</a> to <a href="/Digital_Decay" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Decay">Digital Decay</a> over redirect</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">loss </del>is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Digital <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">decay </ins>is a term used to describe the loss of formatting or accessibility of a digital artifact. Examples include tapes, microfiche, VHS, CD-ROMs and the sourcing of the equipment required to play or run them. Much of the information sent back and forth between humanity is now digital. It now resides in electric pulses instead of entrenched into stone. This data, if not kept alive, will decay into nothingness.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Escaping the Digital Dark Age, Stuart Brand points out that "Information lives in two major dimensions - space and time", but that while "the space dimension for data will keep exploding...the time dimension is shrinking".<ref>Escaping The Digital Dark Age. By Stewart Brand. Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49.</ref></div></td></tr>
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