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I use the words should not
instead of can - because some hackers brain out there will think that the word can gives them the right to hack and edit as they want

digital information should not changed

text files, web pages should not edited

scanned books online should not have words changed that the author did not write

example a political candidate wants to prove his innocence
he/she then places files online with proof of his innocence changing the date when the file was online

you can find this with blog posts and web pages having dates with comments that relate to something current, but dated a year or more ago

an entertainment producer wants to say he did not steal someones story, and posts a similar story in a blog but dates it earlier
or wants something included in aproject they are working on, so they posts comments similar to what they want in the tv show or movie --

digital world, is digital criminals that historians will thinkis truthful information

another example -
the government wants to search books for every time someone used the word red or blue. They find it and change the words in every source found to redblue or whatever color they want to use. People reading it think it always said redblue

the entertainment industry is editing old tv shows and movies - adding dialogue, changing the colors of clothing worn, adding hand gestures and facial signs to make you think these things were in the movies or tv shows fromt he 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's when it wa really added within the last year

saving the orginal non-edited version and making that available to people of the future instead of the hacked version is the problem digital historians and archivists have

this problem has been known for years, but rarely do I see someone talking about it. Instaed people that gather the worlds diaries in places like Facebook say - we own your lives forever. Whatever you post is public domain, for our use any way we want.

why should people care if
1000 years from now opening someone cant open a file that contains hacked information or a book whose writing has been changed to reflect redblue of the moment instead of the original thoughts of the author.

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"but something will need to be done so that once software is no longer supported, we will be able to preserve the information created with that software."

Are we all forgetting that before paper and pens were invented, the cavemen wrote information on rocks? And as the technology available for preserving/archiving information advanced, the information moved with the technology. When new technology and file formats are invented, then the information will be converted too. Computers and the internet has the ability to automatically convert the articles, essays etc. to new formats, especially for internet information leaders such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

It's informative. I liked the interview. but I was wondering why they didnt put a camera on stand while there were two shooting?
too shaking to my eyes for an about 20 min episode.

TV interviewer from CN

Vent Cerf is the man!

The internet is restructuring our economy into the "information superhighway age". Jobs will be regained as our economy restructures.

The internet will become our gateway to life's management.

First of all, this Vint Cerf character needs to get off his high horse - what did he really do to be called a "principle mind behind what we know as the internet today"??? Because he works for Google and Google has the Internet in a headlock?

WHAT SPECIFICALLY DID HE DEVELOP THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR HOW WE USE THE INTERNET? Probably nothing, which is the case with most middle management.

Also,

"One big scary possibility is that over a period of a thousand years, all of the accumulated digital information that we've stored away somewhere will no longer be understandable to our descendants"

That has to be one of the stupidest statements I've ever read. Why in the world would we no longer have some kind of "primer" for how to extrapolate older digital information? Even if that primer was deleted/lost, in 1000 years, don't you think someone will be able to "decode" it at some point!?!?!?

I'm disappointed at how highly regarded Vint Cerf is since he's seemingly worthless and not much of a theoretical thinker.

I think this article is nothing more than a PR stunt for Vint, who's trying to move up the corporate ladder.

Perhaps in the future camera work will be much improved..LOL!

This is already happening, programs storage create during the 80's are not very accessible anymore.