DW DocFilm - The End Of Memory September 22, 2018
Memory is an essential issue for our society and for every one of us up to now various media have been used to store our memories and a wealth of information. The average Life Expectancy of an inscription on a stone is ten thousand years. On parchment its a thousand years. On film one hundred. On vinyl fifty years. With computers our memory is facing an unexpected vulnerability some technologies have already disappeared this uncertainty is especially troubling because we evolve to to make everything digital believing our data would remain retrievable for a very long time yet not a single digit...
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