Forbes.com is running an interesting story on “Email Time Capsules”. I wish I’d thought of something like this for my thesis project. It’s a cool article nonetheless.
It’s one thing to have a physical time capsule where you can access it later. But it’s quite different to preserve things digitally, mainly because technology changes quite rapidly that you just don’t know if the technology in 20 years is going to be able to access what you tried to preserve 20 years ago. Some museums are trying desperately to find ways to preserve their digital art collection. Wired also has an interesting article on the subject. Here’s another article on the subject of digital art’s longevity (or lack thereof?).
via [Forbes.com]