Experts worry that items preserved in digital form may not be readily accessible in the future because the equipment and software needed to read them will become obsolete.
Recent scandals in the USA provoke this New York Time article on accountability in government. But it's not just government that faces this challenge.
"...stored personal memories or favorite music on eight-track tapes, floppy disks or 8-millimeter film,” said Allen Weinstein, the archivist of the United States. “In many cases, these technologies are now relics, and we have no way to access the stored information.
Imagine this problem multiplied millions and millions of times. That’s what the federal government is facing.”
Source: New York Times
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