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Illinois professor warns about "Digital Dark Age"

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Illinois professor warns about "Digital Dark Age"

Submitted by Khalid on Wed, 2008/10/29 - 17:52

Like I have said before, digital media and file formats will be a serious challenge in the future.

Dr. Jerome P. McDonough of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne (UIUC) warns of a digital dark age because of digital media not being as resilient as physical media. He teaches graduate studies on Library and Information Science.

A very good article indeed.

Here is the Slashdot discussion.

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