When Data Disappears

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When Data Disappears
By Kari Kraus, an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies and the English department at the University of Maryland.

Bruce Sterling, a renowned science fiction writer and futurist has a point: for all its many promises, digital storage is perishable, perhaps even more so than paper. Disks corrode, bits ‘rot’ and hardware becomes obsolete.