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What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we were cut off from our electronic records? (episode)
NASA's archives faced technological extinction, until a series of happy accidents allowed Keith Cowing to rescue the iconic photograph, Earthrise.
Four decades after he co-developed one of the protocols that made the internet a reality, Vint Cerf is worried about our digital future.
Could a solar flare cause a digital meltdown? Brooke speaks with Lucianne Walkowicz, astronomer at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, about the sun's power to affect our electrical grid.
Rocky Rawlins created the Survivor Library in preparation for a solar flare taking us back to a pre-digital age.
Paper burns. Bits rot. CDs decay. But DNA can last tens of thousands of years. That's why researchers in England have developed a way to code digital data into the code of life.
Novelist Margaret Atwood recently handed in a new manuscript, Scribbler Moon, to the Future Library -- which means we'll have to wait until 2114 to read it.
A guide to moving your data from those obsolete cassettes, tapes and even floppy disks to somewhere you can actually use them.