‘Print your photos or risk losing them’
As operating systems and software get upgraded, documents and images stored using older technology are becoming increasingly inaccessible, said Dr Vinton “Vint” Cerf, vice-president of Google.
In centuries to come, future historians looking back on the current era could be confronted by a digital desert comparable with the dark ages — the post-Roman period in Western Europe about which relatively little is known because of the scarcity of written records.
