| >> If the images exist only as a digital image file, the answer is almost certainly, "No". Hrm I don't quite understand. Right now just about every important element of modern history is being saved in raw formats, as well as jpegs, pngs, psds and the like. Are we assuming that a hundred years from now we'll have completely lost the ability to view these images and videos? London 1970s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPIaG644jsI London 1990s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84k4Tkj6wc London 2000s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTh80Aybjs In a hundred years we'll lose the ability to view all of this and only physical copies will survive? How are we even supposed to store video then? You can't print it out, and if you burn it to a CD it's just as useless. Not being able to plug your 40 year old USB memory stick into whatever-magic-future-technology exists is one thing, but there's no reason whatever-magic-future-technology wont be able to run a little virtualized system that can display it for you. I'd say the opposite. In a hundred years 3d printers would have gotten to the point where they could just make some sort of peripheral on the fly to view old CDs, records, and even tape drives. In the future if you're browsing the thrift store and you come across a pristine CD of Silpheed I bet you could walk into your local 'maker' shop and they'll print you out a Sega CD to play it on. |
Or youtube will go out of business (like the original google video). Or in 5 years the people who posted the videos will pull them down as their business model changes.
If you want to see it already on youtube create a playlist of videos especially music videos. After about a year 10% of them will have been removed.