Transiency of Digital Media

• By the time we die, everything we have created in our lives will have been deprecated
• And what happens when The Lights Go Out
• works that require user particpation to exist (Quantum?)

Long Now Foundation

"And digital files do not degrade gracefully like analog audio tapes. When they fail, they fail utterly...

We are in the process of building one vast global computer, which could easily become The Legacy System from Hell that holds civilization hostage, the system doesn't really work; it can't be fixed; no one understands it; no one is in charge of it; it can't be lived without; and it gets worse every year.

Today's bleeding-edge technology is tomorrow's broken legacy system."
-Long Now Foundation (via DM7193 DmPerspectives)