Impact of digital photography craze on culture not yet known, one expert thinks it could mean ‘dark age’
Filed in archive Opinion by Andrew Garrett on September 27, 2005
It's almost tempting to write that article off as luddite scare mongering - but it is something that we need to keep in mind.
It's all well and good to archive our images to CD or DVD - but we need to also be prepared to migrate those archives in the future, once that technology has been replaced.
It's only 10 years ago that I was still storing documents on 3.5" floppy disks - now, I'd be hard pressed to lay my hands on a floppy drive of any sort.
It's not only being prepared to move your archives - it's being aware of where they all are. Putting your CDs of digital photos in a shoebox in the attic just won't cut it, I'm afraid.
And remember - make more than one copy, and store the copies in different places if you can.
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