Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, this week issued a stern warning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, held in San Jose. “Old formats that contain documents, photos and other data may not be readable with the latest version of the software,” Cerf said, adding that backwards compatibility is not guaranteed, and over time there could be vast archives of digital content that simply can’t be accessed.
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‘Digital Dark Age’ Imminent Warns ‘Father of the Internet’
Posted by: Peter Suciu February 13, 2015 04:07 PMVint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, this week issued a stern warning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, held in San Jose. “Old formats that contain documents, photos and other data may not be readable with the latest version of the software,” Cerf said, adding that backwards compatibility is not guaranteed, and over time there could be vast archives of digital content that simply can’t be accessed.