Digital Obsolescence, or ‘Bit Rot’ as Vint Cerf likes to call it, is the problem of digital recordings (or digital information) becoming unreadable in the future due to technological advancements over time. Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet, explains what’s being done about it and what we should be doing to secure our data.
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