Sci-Fi ? Where have all the data gone

[lotus]

I saw yesterday an very interesting report on TV about the storage media in the past and questions about the media in the future.

If we reduce it to music, first storage was the human memory, then paper notes came, early 20th century the vinyl, in the 80's the CD, now it is changing from CD to netbased storage, downloadable to local storage media.

If you see the different time frames, as everything, the periods between a revolution in storage to another become every time shorter. From the beginning of mankind to year 1500 AD (no idea, just a guess) the memory. The written notes from 1500 to 1900 (ok the written notes still exist), vinyl from 1900 to 1980, CD from 1980 to 2015 and then internet for the use everywhere (maybe) and 2025???.

This changes are not only with music, but with all data. The problem is not the change from one to another generation, but if time between the evolutions becomes too short to recode or whatsoever all data into the new one, we will loose a lot of music/data.

Imagine, if Jim has to recode all 4625 albums to a new code/system etc..

Just wanted to share this with you..