I liked this reply actually. It gave me a glimmer of hope.
But what about in 50 years? (I've got photos of family from nearly 100 years
ago).
In the future you will be a number to us, not a name. So you are safer.
1 What's this?
2 A drink coaster?
1 Maybe it is one of those CD things.
2 Why bother with modern mind technology?
1 Lets look at it. maybe it will have some data (no longer called
information) about how those people lived 50 years ago. Life must have been
tough then. Washing, driving etc.
2 How can we look at it?
1 Is there a data conversion store somewhere?
2 What is data conversion? Data is data.
1 Lets throw it out. I've got some of my great great great grandfathers
photos somewhere. I'll never throw that stuff out.
2 Sounds good.
So in 2051, some more photos of this era disappear forever......
Foxy
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> >What will the photo industry do to take care of old image
> >files in 5 years' time? Ten years' time? Forty years' time?
> >Will the media and the software still exist that are needed
> >to access them? The speed of change in the computer industry
> >has me doubt it. When did you last see an 8-inch floppy disk
> >- (if ever). They were in use in my employer's office 10 years
> >ago for word-processing.. Now you try and find a machine to
> >read them. What about punched cards for computer input? I
> >last used them 20 years ago. Could you find a card-reader
> >now?
>
> Hmmm. I last saw an 8-inch drive a couple of years ago when I
> needed some data off an 8-inch floppy and took it to a data
> conversion shop. No problem finding data conversion services,
> just looked in the yellow pages. You can still find places that
> will do punchcards and punched paper tape, too.
>
> Of course, I wouldn't have had that problem if it had been my own
> 8" floppy, since I copied all of them onto backup tapes when I
> knew my regular access to an 8" drive was going away. I don't
> have anything important left on 5.25" or 3.5" floppies these
> days, already copied them onto CD. You can fit a ton of floppies
> on one CD, so even if floppies never go away, it's a lot more
> convenient to have all the stuff on CD. Plus you can make copies
> of the CDs for off-site backup.
>
> When at last today's CD format becomes obsolete, I'm sure I'll be
> able to fit quite a stack of CDs on whatever medium replaces
> them.
>
> These days, anyone who wants their digital archives preserved
> just has to throw a bit of money at the problem. There are
> commercial providers who will make media upgrades invisible to
> the customer. At a small scale, I don't even know when phred.org
> gets bigger disks or even gets moved onto a whole new machine.
> The photos on my web page come up just the same as ever, no
> effort on my part at all.
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