He fears that future generations will have little or no record of the
21st Century as we enter what he describes as a "digital Dark Age".
Our life, our memories, our most cherished family photographs
increasingly exist as bits of information - on our hard drives or in
"the cloud". But as technology moves on, they risk being lost in the
wake of an accelerating digital revolution.
"I worry a great deal about that," Mr Cerf told me. "You and I are
experiencing things like this. Old formats of documents that we've
created or presentations may not be readable by the latest version of
the software because backwards compatibility is not always guaranteed.
"And so what can happen over time is that even if we
accumulate vast archives of digital content, we may not actually know
what it is."
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