Once, many years ago we converted Super-8 video to VHS tapes and felt like we had accomplished a once-in-a-lifetime acrobatic feat. This weekend, with temperatures dipping to -17, it was time for pre-spring clean-up and I unearthed floppy disks, zip disks, and all sorts of technologies on my bookshelves that I no longer can use.
How do we cope with technology changing so rapidly that we can spend a weekend a year updating from disks to CDs to DVDs to thumbdrives to iPods. How do we know that the format we choose will be here in 6 months, let alone 6 or 60 years?
When I browse through old photographs that remain crisp with detail, I wonder if our newer digital wonders will last through the generations as well.
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