Piles of digitised material – from blogs, tweets, pictures and videos, to
official documents such as court rulings and emails – may be lost forever
because the programs needed to view them will become defunct, Google’s
vice-president has warned.

Humanity’s first steps into the digital world could be lost to future
historians, Vint Cerf told the American Association for the Advancement of
Science’s annual meeting in San Jose, California, warning that we faced a
“forgotten generation, or even a forgotten century” through what he called
“bit rot”, where old computer files become useless junk.

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