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Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new dark ages and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and poverty. Npr s book concierge is your guide to 2018s best reads. As a result of our current reliance on ephemeral data, are we entering a digital dark age. A few keystrokes away from digital dark ages ncpr news. Google vice president vint cerf says that our complete reliance on digital information that is often not preserved could result in an information black hole for future historians.
Dark age, by pierce brown the latest installment in pierce browns epic romaninspace saga red rising finds our hero overthrown and banished from the republic he founded, and teetering dangerously close to villainy. A leading light of the internet is worried that the time is rapidly approaching when email, photos, documents and other digital relics may be lost to history because the. While the original domesday book of 1086 is still readable today, there were great fears that the discs of the 1986. Cerf is warning of a possible digital dark ages if the worlds data isnt permanently preserved. Such a book might not be possible to write about the people living today, said cerf during the san jose event, reports the telegraph, the digital content such as emails that an author might need will have evaporated because nobody saved it, or its around but its not interpretable because it was created by software thats 100 years old. Desiree butterfieldnagy, digital dark age and the future of humanities and social sciences, email interview by author, january 11, 2016.
How to avoid the coming dark age for digital records. Use our tags to filter books and find the perfect read for yourself or someone you love. Digital dark age could leave historians with no records of. Reagan moore, towards a theory of digital preservation, in the international journal of digital curation 31 2008, 6375. Wrote the book of laws called the code of justinian. Digital dark age could leave historians with no records. New york times bestseller the bestselling author of morning star returns to the red rising universe with the thrilling sequel to iron gold. The digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of. Internet pioneer warns our era could become the digital dark ages kansas public radio. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. Future generations may find it difficult or impossible to retrieve electronic documents and multimedia, because they have been recorded in an obsolete and obscure file.