Into the future : on the preservation of knowledge in the electronic age /

Into the Future explores the hidden crisis of the digital information age. Will digitally stored information and knowledge survive into the future? Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time? A sequel to the award-winning Slow...

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Other Authors: Sanders, Terry (Producer, Director, Screenwriter)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : American Film Foundation, 1997.
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Summary:Into the Future explores the hidden crisis of the digital information age. Will digitally stored information and knowledge survive into the future? Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time? A sequel to the award-winning Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record, it features such icons of the Information Age as Peter Norton (Norton Utilities) and Tim Berners-Lee (father of the World Wide Web).
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed July 24, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (57 min.)
Playing Time:00:56:31
Participant or Performer:Narrated by Robert MacNeil.
Language:In English.