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Inmersed in the tsunami
IMMERSED IN THE TSUNAMI
A history of the information explosionThe idea that we are living after the shock wave of a major information explosion is not new. Even so, the quantity of data that we are capable of producing, transmitting, and storing has grown at an unprecedented rate. Fifty years ago, a hard disk was an enormous device, about the size of a small family car, and it stored the equivalent of a single song in MP3 format, a ridiculous fraction of the capacity of the smartphones that we carry in our pockets today.
As our personal experience and our collective history are increasingly encoded in digital formats, the problem of their preservation in the long term becomes more urgent.