Looming digital dark age | Blog | Futurismic
october 2008 by Vaguery
"Magnetic tape, which stores most of the world’s computer backups, can degrade within a decade. According to the National Archives Web site by the mid-1970s, only two machines could read the data from the 1960 U.S. Census: One was in Japan, the other in the Smithsonian Institution. Some of the data collected from NASA’s 1976 Viking landing on Mars is unreadable and lost forever."
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memory
collective-memory
loss
october 2008 by Vaguery
American Scientist Online - Computational Photography
february 2008 by Vaguery
nonphotorealistic photography
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photography
nonphotorealistic
imaging
visualization
digitization
rendering
focus
february 2008 by Vaguery
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