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I always asked myself what will happen to all the free stuff we take for granted, like free image hosting, free mail etc
How will a new financial system affect the flow of information in the world?
Also what will happen happen to websites of people who can't afford to host them anymore? poof gone ?
There are sites like archive.org, but they don't have everything.
How will a new financial system affect the flow of information in the world?
Also what will happen happen to websites of people who can't afford to host them anymore? poof gone ?
The great digital information disappearing act
Deborah Woodyard, Digital Preservation Coordinator, The British Library
Could the information age spell the death of information? This is a genuine risk that proper action to store websites and other electronic information can avoid. Now the British have enacted legislation so that electronic publications would be saved for future generations.
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The worldwide web is estimated to contain over 250 terabytes of information and is still growing rapidly. That is equivalent to 17 times the volume of the print collections in the United States Library of Congress. This alone sounds mind-boggling and yet, according to the same research source, e-mail creates roughly 400,000 terabytes of information a year!
http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/ful...aring_act.html
Deborah Woodyard, Digital Preservation Coordinator, The British Library
Could the information age spell the death of information? This is a genuine risk that proper action to store websites and other electronic information can avoid. Now the British have enacted legislation so that electronic publications would be saved for future generations.
...
The worldwide web is estimated to contain over 250 terabytes of information and is still growing rapidly. That is equivalent to 17 times the volume of the print collections in the United States Library of Congress. This alone sounds mind-boggling and yet, according to the same research source, e-mail creates roughly 400,000 terabytes of information a year!
http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/ful...aring_act.html
There are sites like archive.org, but they don't have everything.
Why the Archive is Building an 'Internet Library'
Libraries exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and scholarship in this era of digital technology, it's essential for them to extend those functions into the digital world.
Many early movies were recycled to recover the silver in the film. The Library of Alexandria - an ancient center of learning containing a copy of every book in the world - was eventually burned to the ground. Even now, at the turn of the 21st century, no comprehensive archives of television or radio programs exist.
But without cultural artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. And paradoxically, with the explosion of the Internet, we live in what Danny Hillis has referred to as our "digital dark age."
The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, we are working to preserve a record for generations to come.
http://www.archive.org/about/about.php#why
Libraries exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and scholarship in this era of digital technology, it's essential for them to extend those functions into the digital world.
Many early movies were recycled to recover the silver in the film. The Library of Alexandria - an ancient center of learning containing a copy of every book in the world - was eventually burned to the ground. Even now, at the turn of the 21st century, no comprehensive archives of television or radio programs exist.
But without cultural artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. And paradoxically, with the explosion of the Internet, we live in what Danny Hillis has referred to as our "digital dark age."
The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, we are working to preserve a record for generations to come.
http://www.archive.org/about/about.php#why
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