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# Google VP Warns Digital Media Could Vanish

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## Video: Google VP Warns Digital Media Could Vanish

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_Published 2015-02-16. Computers and the Web house loads of information, but Google's vice president says if today's technology becomes obsolete, our data is lost forever._


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## Transcript

How common are cassette players these days or how about floppy disk drives? Think about how rare those technologies have become only a couple decades after they were so common. Now consider how difficult it'll be to read a cassette tape or floppy disk a few centuries. From now. Tech experts and historians worry today's photos and documents stored only on computers or online, will one day be unreadable. The problem is you have to have something to read the CD with, and if you don't have a computer. This is Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, and he's warning of a digital dark age. He recently told a tech conference, we are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realizing it.

[ MUSIC ] Share more. Smile more. It sounds like. Something out of the tech nightmare scenarios from the show Black Mirror, but it's also a real concern. Imagine if all those photos of your grandparents in a family photo album had instead only been posted to a mid- 1900's equivalent of Instagram. That technology probably wouldn't be readily accessible today. So what can we do? Turn to the technology we hate most. Printers. Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God. Yes, VentSurf and other tech visionaries suggest simply printing and preserving physical copies of photos and documents is the only true way to ensure they'll be around 100 years from now.

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