At The Guardian's 2013 Activate conference in London, the computer scientist and Internet founder Vint Cerf, when asked about the future of libraries in the digital age, expressed concern. "I am really worried right now about the possibility of saving bits but losing their meaning and ending up with bit rot," he said. "You have a bag of bits that you saved for a thousand years, but you don't know what they mean because the software that was needed to interpret them is no longer available or it's no longer executable ... This is a serious, serious problem, and we have to solve that." http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/bit-rot-the-internetneverforgetsaordoesit.html?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29&utm_content=FeedBurner Larry [log in to unmask] -- *Lawrence J. Medina Danville, CARIM Professional since 1972* List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
