[Irtalk] Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow - Slashdot

[Hilton Gibson]

"Vinton Cerf is warning that digital things created today — spreadsheets,
documents, presentations as well as mountains of scientific data — may not
be readable in the years and centuries ahead. Cerf illustrates the problem
in a simple way. He runs Microsoft Office 2011 on Macintosh, but it cannot
read a 1997 PowerPoint file. 'It doesn't know what it is,' he said.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/04/2353210/vint-cerf-data-thats-here-today-may-be-gone-tomorrow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
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