Into the future : on the preservation of knowledge in the electronic age.

Date:
1997
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Description

Into the future is about the hidden crisis of the digital information age. It asks if digitally stored information and knowledge will survive into the future. Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time? What happened to reel to reel? Can we still read those magnetic tapes from early Voyager probes into outer space? What about CD-Roms? And even Windows 2.2?

Publication/Creation

USA : Commission on Preservation and Access, 1997.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (56 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Creator/production credits

A production of American Film Foundation and Saunders & Mock Productions. In association with Commission on Preservation and American Council of Learned Societies.

Notes

Supporting paperwork available in the department.

Copyright note

1997 Commission on Preservation & Access.

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