We are creating — and losing — information at a faster and faster rate these days. Plenty of what we’re creating deserves to end up in the dumpster, but our descendants will need our history and knowledge. The digital world is particularly ill-suited to preservation, it turns out.
Some of the world’s smartest information specialists are talking about all of this at a symposium, where a special disk was unveiled — the Rosetta Disk. More in my Sunday column.