Bit rot (on digital vellum) | Vint Cerf | TEDxRoma

[@jasonlewis460]

This guy should get the Medal of Honor and the Presidential medal of freedom.

[@bowlosoggycereal8135]

Yea it would also be wild if he got the ACM Alan M. Turing award

[@dbfisher]

I think we also have to think about the threat of electro magnetic pulse (EMP) from either warfare or solar storms and the potential for erasing or jumbling data stored in magnetic form.

[@jasonlewis460]

We will be storing data on crystals very soon.

[@danoobrien4410]

Keep the data moving, the previous vessel can physically rot away after you move it to a new medium.

[@engineeredarmy1152]

9.7k views for this? Wow

[@MargotHypnos]

my university lecturer is making me watch this!!!!!!!!!!!

[@introprospector]

This has nothing to do with bit rot. It's a rossetta stone problem

[@qwertyasdfg7782]

so they dont have facilities to preserve this things?

[@nnov_tech_chan7891]

True hackers use paper to store things

[@TheTastefulThickness]

I do

[@campbellsmith9849]

idk i feel like something like a .wav file could be read 1000 years from now.