Digital Memories
There’s quite an interesting little article on BBC News Interactive about storage of digital photos [news.bbc.co.uk]. Essentially it’s saying that today’s digital camera revolution could be bad news for the future, as it will not leave behind the kind of historic memory aids that are "real" photos. Digital photos are rarely printed, and because of the rate of technological change it is difficult to retrieve electronically stored images even as little as ten years after they were comitted to their storage medium. This is not good. Maybe we need to be encouraged into printing out (your best) digital pics…
