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![Digital dark age' could leave historians with no records of the 21st century Google vice president recommends printing out important pictures, so that they can be preserved for history ANDREW GRIFFIN Friday 13 February 2015 844 PRINT A A A Technology could mean that our lives are lost to history, according to experts. As the way that we store information about ourselves develops, memories stored in files that use older technology are becoming harder to access, Dr Vinton "Vint" Cerf, vice president of Google, has warned. That could mean that historians of the future are unable to learn about our lives, Cerf said. He compared the potential loss to the dark ages — the time after the Romans, about which little is known because there are few written records. Cerf recommended that users make physical copies of important documents, so that they will last into the future. "In our zeal to get excited about digitising we digitise photographs thinking it's going to make them last longer, and we might turn out to be wrong," he said. "I would say if there are photos you are really concerned about create a physical instance of them. Print them out." But even that might not work, since historians often don’t realise what the important documents of a time are until centuries after those that made them have died. "Some people make the argument that the important stuff will be copied and put into new media and so why should we worry," Cerf said. "But historians will tell you that sometimes documents and transactions images and so on may turn out to have an importance which is not understood for hundreds of years. So failure to preserve them will cause us to lose our perspective." 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That involves taking a snapshot of all the ways that a digital file can be opened, and storing it alongside the document itself — meaning that scientists will be able to use the instructions to reproduce the files by following the instructions. Cerf illustrated his point with the example of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book ‘Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln’, which was written by searching through libraries to find letters between Lincoln and his contemporaries. Such a book might not be possible to write about the people living today, he said — the digital content such as emails that an author might need will have “evaporated because nobody saved it, or it’s around but it's not interpretable because it was created by software that's 100 years old”. Cerf, who is also the chief internet evangelist at Google, made the remarks at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the Silicon Valley capital, San Jose, California. by TaboolaSponsored LinksPromoted stories from the web There Are 7 Types of English Surnames — Which One Is Yours? Ancestry 5 Microwave Myths You Should Know About Foodnetwork.co.uk Life Insurance Companies Hate This New Trick Quotes.com Should You Rent Or Buy? Find Out Here Money Advice Service by TaboolaMore from The Independent John Davies: Academic and broadcaster whose peerless histories of Wales were rich with insight and fascinating detail Timberlake Wertenbaker: The playwright on making trouble, cheering for a Greek revolution and premature reports of her demise Ads by Google Google Chromecast for £30 Stream the web to your TV wirelessly. Find out more. google.com/chromecast Did Jesus Really Die? Did Jesus Rise From THe Dead? 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Electronic media are proving very long lasting anyway, judging by the people being caught out when their old emails are discovered.REPLY + 0– notthedailymail NOTTHEDAILYMAIL 7 days ago My personal take on this is that yes its important, but guess what, the sun will eventually die out and everything will be cast into the cold relentless void of space and probably end up in oblivion. Archives are like the junk we keep in the garage, we need to give it up at some stage and we will eventually die. Are we expected to keep everything? As someone with 180 Times Newspaper bound volumes 1830-1900 I can say that much digital news will be and is already being lost. wehn small local papers go out of business their servers and all the local history do generally die. Im a historian and I can see that happeneing.REPLY + 0– mike mansfield MIKE MANSFIELD 7 days ago Optimist about us surviving beyond this century ! Most youth walk around staring at a phone all day. REPLY + 1– As_Salaam AS_SALAAM 7 days ago I think that amnesia will be refreshing to human culture, We could start anew ! As a genius level human primate once said, "History is Bunk".REPLY + 0– Same again SAME AGAIN 7 days ago The dark ages have already arrived at our local open-air swimming pool."NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED!" says the fierce notice on the poolside fence. In one generation, all those treasured family photos of the children, Dad asleep in the deckchair, boyfriends/girlfriends having fun - all will be as if it had never existed. I wrote to complain, saying if someone looked as if they were taking inappropriate pictures that should be dealt with on the spot by managing the situation, not by a blanket ban on peoples' memories. I got no reply.REPLY + 2– As_Salaam AS_SALAAM 7 days ago But you might have landed on a list for future, you know, suspects... there must surely be a reason for you engagement ? We are heading straight for the dark ages, with a vengeance.REPLY + 1– iitm IITM 7 days ago To preserve our family’s photographic memories in full colour, I make every year a photo book with the highlights of the year http://iitm.be/CEWE_MyPhotobook REPLY + 1– Zzxy ZZXY 7 days ago At last, someone who knows that the name 'Dark Ages' has nothing to do with the actual level of progress made in that time period.REPLY + 1– Marmighty MARMIGHTY 7 days ago 'Experts'? A suit at Google has just noticed something that historians and biographers have been worrying about for fifteen years.REPLY + 4– EasyTiger EASYTIGER 7 days ago um… I think Dr Vinton Cerf probably qualifies as an 'expert' having been one of the inventors of commercial email and the TCP/IP protocol, having a PhD from Stanford and having been a professor there, having a dozen honorary doctorates from elite universities around the world, working for NASA, President for the Association for Computing Machinery, winner of the Turing Award, the Marconi Prize etc., etc., and now, in his 70s, advising the world's largest digital firm. So, yeah, Expert. He does wear very nice suits though…REPLY + 0– Tom Norton TOM NORTON 7 days ago For that research I would like to award you an honorary doctorate.+ 0– AlanAudio ALANAUDIO 7 days ago I don't think that things are quite as clear cut as that. Obviously future historians will need to find a way of reading computer files that they discover and many such files will simply disappear for any number of reasons, but any files that they are able to open will reveal much more information than a simple paper version would. Photos will have metadata revealing the time, date, details of the camera together with it's settings and in many cases GPS data too. Users who have catalogued their photographs will also have provided names, occasions and key words. Word processed documents will also carry details of the time created, amendments and the type of computer used to create them. Just as an old photograph with a few words written on the back is much more historically useful, pictures with metadata are also more informative than just the image would have been. Of course it all hinges on whether files are saved in a medium that lasts for a sufficiently long time. We know that early movies deteriorated and were a fire risk, early tape recordings also deteriorated because the magnetic particles did not stay bonded to the tape. The lifespan of data storage formats is variable. Some formats are OK for just a few years, while other formats might be expected to be readable for a hundred years or more. The saving grace with electronic data is that copying it to a better format is relatively easy - so long as somebody thinks it's worthwhile doing so, but on the other hand, many a box of old photographs was thrown out when a house was cleared.REPLY + 0– Who killed Lucy Beale? 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The British Library's brand new National Newspaper Building has officially opened. The newly built storage void holds 60 million newspapers and periodicals spanning more than three centuries1 / 1 ×](http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9999216.ece/alternates/w620/britain-in-pic-4.jpg "Digital dark age' could leave historians with no records of the 21st century Google vice president recommends printing out important pictures, so that they can be preserved for history ANDREW GRIFFIN Friday 13 February 2015 844 PRINT A A A Technology could mean that our lives are lost to history, according to experts. As the way that we store information about ourselves develops, memories stored in files that use older technology are becoming harder to access, Dr Vinton \"Vint\" Cerf, vice president of Google, has warned. That could mean that historians of the future are unable to learn about our lives, Cerf said. He compared the potential loss to the dark ages — the time after the Romans, about which little is known because there are few written records. Cerf recommended that users make physical copies of important documents, so that they will last into the future. \"In our zeal to get excited about digitising we digitise photographs thinking it's going to make them last longer, and we might turn out to be wrong,\" he said. \"I would say if there are photos you are really concerned about create a physical instance of them. Print them out.\" But even that might not work, since historians often don’t realise what the important documents of a time are until centuries after those that made them have died. \"Some people make the argument that the important stuff will be copied and put into new media and so why should we worry,\" Cerf said. \"But historians will tell you that sometimes documents and transactions images and so on may turn out to have an importance which is not understood for hundreds of years. So failure to preserve them will cause us to lose our perspective.\" Gadgets and Tech News in Pictures 1 of 55 'Tinder for stoners' Next 'Tinder for stoners'Samsung's new smart TV policy allows company to listen in on usersOffice plants computer chips under workers’ skin instead of ID cardsRevenge porn helpline launched for victimsTwitter and Google deal will put tweets straight into search resultsWoman landed with £1,200 phone bill after using emojis in text messagesTwitter to create personalised timelines when people sign upTinder PlusGoogle to take on Uber with car-sharing app, Uber to build its own self-driving carsSamsung Galaxy S6 releaseWhatsApp security bug shows private pictures to strangersSpotify cancels launch in RussiaGoogle is making human skin as part of research into 'wristband that can detect cancer'WhatsApp voice callsLuna smart mattressDocumentaries go 360-degreesPinterest introduces manly searchPorn blocksApple Watch batterylifeWhatsApp webTwitterTwitter launches ‘while you were away’ recaps on iOS app ‘while you were away’ recaps on iOS appSpartan browserWindows 10Pirate Bay returnWireless phone charging in StarbucksiPhone secret softwareFacebook tackles hoax postsGoogle invests in SpaceXOutlook email taken down in ChinaLizard Squad’s cyberattackiPad ProRIP Google GlassMySpace could be saved by Throwback ThursdayXiaomi vs AppleNew 'stealth' speed cameras Nintendo's new releaseGoogle Translate gets live translation of conversations and text3D-printed carWhatsApp and iMessage could be banned SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket deploys cargo to ISSGames take over YouTubePeople ‘horrified’ by self-driving carsReddit launches to track stories behind its most popular postsThe end of iPod ShuffleCES 2015LYNX 9 Mobile Hybrid ControllerApple's bendy iPhone Facebook to become new YouTubePlayStation 4 release delayed in ChinaNike’s self-lacing Back to the Future trainersYouTube is getting 360-degree videosSmart gunsPono music playerApple Watch release dateNew Walkman Another way of solving the problem is “digital vellum”, a concept that is still in development. That involves taking a snapshot of all the ways that a digital file can be opened, and storing it alongside the document itself — meaning that scientists will be able to use the instructions to reproduce the files by following the instructions. Cerf illustrated his point with the example of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book ‘Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln’, which was written by searching through libraries to find letters between Lincoln and his contemporaries. Such a book might not be possible to write about the people living today, he said — the digital content such as emails that an author might need will have “evaporated because nobody saved it, or it’s around but it's not interpretable because it was created by software that's 100 years old”. Cerf, who is also the chief internet evangelist at Google, made the remarks at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the Silicon Valley capital, San Jose, California. by TaboolaSponsored LinksPromoted stories from the web There Are 7 Types of English Surnames — Which One Is Yours? Ancestry 5 Microwave Myths You Should Know About Foodnetwork.co.uk Life Insurance Companies Hate This New Trick Quotes.com Should You Rent Or Buy? Find Out Here Money Advice Service by TaboolaMore from The Independent John Davies: Academic and broadcaster whose peerless histories of Wales were rich with insight and fascinating detail Timberlake Wertenbaker: The playwright on making trouble, cheering for a Greek revolution and premature reports of her demise Ads by Google Google Chromecast for £30 Stream the web to your TV wirelessly. Find out more. google.com/chromecast Did Jesus Really Die? Did Jesus Rise From THe Dead? 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Free Download (Highly Recommended) free-malware-removal.sparktrust.com U.K. Birth Records Search our collection of UK birth records by names, dates and more. ancestry.co.uk/Birth_Records World News in Pictures 1 of 50 19 February 2015 Next 19 February 201519 February 201519 February 201519 February 201518 February 201518 February 201518 February 201518 February 201517 February 201517 February 201517 February 201517 February 201517 February 201516 February 201516 February 201516 February 201516 February 201515 February 201515 February 201515 February 201515 February 201515 February 201515 February 201515 February 201515 February 201514 February 201514 February 201514 February 201514 February 201513 February 201513 February 201513 February 201513 February 201513 February 201513 February 201512 February 201512 February 201512 February 201511 Febraury 201511 February 201511 February 201510 February 201510 February 201510 February 201510 February 20159 February 20159 February 20159 February 20158 February 20158 February 2015 13 COMMENTS img Post a Comment TOP NEW OLD hp b HP B 6 days ago \"'Digital dark age' could leave historians with no records of the 21st century\" They forgot to add the (wink wink) REPLY + 0– Strabilla STRABILLA 7 days ago Even if 99% of everything digitally stored is lost, the century will be better recorded than previous centuries. Electronic media are proving very long lasting anyway, judging by the people being caught out when their old emails are discovered.REPLY + 0– notthedailymail NOTTHEDAILYMAIL 7 days ago My personal take on this is that yes its important, but guess what, the sun will eventually die out and everything will be cast into the cold relentless void of space and probably end up in oblivion. Archives are like the junk we keep in the garage, we need to give it up at some stage and we will eventually die. Are we expected to keep everything? As someone with 180 Times Newspaper bound volumes 1830-1900 I can say that much digital news will be and is already being lost. wehn small local papers go out of business their servers and all the local history do generally die. Im a historian and I can see that happeneing.REPLY + 0– mike mansfield MIKE MANSFIELD 7 days ago Optimist about us surviving beyond this century ! Most youth walk around staring at a phone all day. REPLY + 1– As_Salaam AS_SALAAM 7 days ago I think that amnesia will be refreshing to human culture, We could start anew ! As a genius level human primate once said, \"History is Bunk\".REPLY + 0– Same again SAME AGAIN 7 days ago The dark ages have already arrived at our local open-air swimming pool.\"NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED!\" says the fierce notice on the poolside fence. In one generation, all those treasured family photos of the children, Dad asleep in the deckchair, boyfriends/girlfriends having fun - all will be as if it had never existed. I wrote to complain, saying if someone looked as if they were taking inappropriate pictures that should be dealt with on the spot by managing the situation, not by a blanket ban on peoples' memories. I got no reply.REPLY + 2– As_Salaam AS_SALAAM 7 days ago But you might have landed on a list for future, you know, suspects... there must surely be a reason for you engagement ? We are heading straight for the dark ages, with a vengeance.REPLY + 1– iitm IITM 7 days ago To preserve our family’s photographic memories in full colour, I make every year a photo book with the highlights of the year http://iitm.be/CEWE_MyPhotobook REPLY + 1– Zzxy ZZXY 7 days ago At last, someone who knows that the name 'Dark Ages' has nothing to do with the actual level of progress made in that time period.REPLY + 1– Marmighty MARMIGHTY 7 days ago 'Experts'? A suit at Google has just noticed something that historians and biographers have been worrying about for fifteen years.REPLY + 4– EasyTiger EASYTIGER 7 days ago um… I think Dr Vinton Cerf probably qualifies as an 'expert' having been one of the inventors of commercial email and the TCP/IP protocol, having a PhD from Stanford and having been a professor there, having a dozen honorary doctorates from elite universities around the world, working for NASA, President for the Association for Computing Machinery, winner of the Turing Award, the Marconi Prize etc., etc., and now, in his 70s, advising the world's largest digital firm. So, yeah, Expert. He does wear very nice suits though…REPLY + 0– Tom Norton TOM NORTON 7 days ago For that research I would like to award you an honorary doctorate.+ 0– AlanAudio ALANAUDIO 7 days ago I don't think that things are quite as clear cut as that. Obviously future historians will need to find a way of reading computer files that they discover and many such files will simply disappear for any number of reasons, but any files that they are able to open will reveal much more information than a simple paper version would. Photos will have metadata revealing the time, date, details of the camera together with it's settings and in many cases GPS data too. Users who have catalogued their photographs will also have provided names, occasions and key words. Word processed documents will also carry details of the time created, amendments and the type of computer used to create them. Just as an old photograph with a few words written on the back is much more historically useful, pictures with metadata are also more informative than just the image would have been. Of course it all hinges on whether files are saved in a medium that lasts for a sufficiently long time. We know that early movies deteriorated and were a fire risk, early tape recordings also deteriorated because the magnetic particles did not stay bonded to the tape. The lifespan of data storage formats is variable. Some formats are OK for just a few years, while other formats might be expected to be readable for a hundred years or more. The saving grace with electronic data is that copying it to a better format is relatively easy - so long as somebody thinks it's worthwhile doing so, but on the other hand, many a box of old photographs was thrown out when a house was cleared.REPLY + 0– Who killed Lucy Beale? 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