Technology – canada.com has one on data decay. One of the great things about computers and the Internet is the vast amounts of personal information they can create.
But the ease with which we store thousands of pictures and songs on burgeoning hard drives and forgotten CDs makes us forget that all current forms of computer storage are unlikely to last past seven years.
So do… 🙂
library staff slowly degrade and lose effectiveness.
A glaring technical error in the article
The article notes that:
This is mostly true, except for the fact that memory sticks and flash memory do *not* rely on “magnetic technologies”; instead, flash memory stores data in arrays of transistors. In fact, flash memory often degrades more quickly than magnetic media if written frequently.