Digital culture can disappear · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave asks whether a framed photograph of one's grandparents or its digital file is more likely to survive, remembers his own vanished eight-inch floppy media and explains how rapid changes in formats, programs and storage can strand email, records and culture unless people actively migrate and back them up.
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Proposed recording date: 2008-11-01. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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