TEDxValenciaSt - Mark Christian - Long-Lived Data April 19, 2011

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Mark Christian owns what is perhaps the largest collection of Laserdisc movies west of the Mississippi. Mark is concerned that the rapid pace of technological change (and the inherent instability of digital technology) is dooming us to a future case of amnesia about our present history. We have leather-bound books of land surveys and laws from a thousand years ago, but we can't read data tapes with scientific measurements from the first moon landing. In his talk entitled "Long-Lived Data," he explored this issue in the context of the BBC's Domesday Project.

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