DIGITAL BLACK HOLE
“If there are photos you really care about, print them out,” internet pioneer Vint Cerf once told The Guardian, “we are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realising it. We digitise things because we think we will preserve them, but what we don’t understand is that unless we take other steps, those digital versions may not be any better, and may even be worse, than the artefacts that we digitised, if there are photos you really care about, print them out.”
His words echo and validate my own sentiment over the past few years.
The digital universe is a scary, albeit brilliant, place.
Post Script — I feel a book of black holes opening up...
