Are we heading for a digital obsolescense era?

If the power grid shuts down, information will be the least of our problems.

Regardless, digital information is stored on supports that are perfectly usable without the power grid itself, you just need a generator to power a computer for a while, and considering we have stuff like the Raspberry Pi even a dynamo could be enough.

The problem with the cloud is not the digitalization but rather the delocalization of the drives, that in such an event would make the recovery impossible. Your files could be on a server in New Zealand for all you know, there is no way to tell where they are stored and there might be issues retrieving them.

Then again, as a CS student, i can safely say that if you’re using a cloud drive as your ONLY storage, excluding even your own computers’ hard drives, you’re stark raving mad and losing that information is probably well deserved.

What about the billions upon billions of laptops?

And wikipedia is an old website? Really?

Not to mention it is easy to power things with battery backups, solar charged batteries or modifying other things like excercise bikes to generate power.

Also Military grade cases for things like hard drives, that data is pretty darn safe, sounds like you need to catch up with the times.

“In a short time our files that were digitalized will not be able to be opened.”

Really now? This is news to me….

seems pretty odd though considering we’ve invented devices that have been able to copy data stored from every other media to the current form but what do I know…

For really hard copies, use a stylus and clay tablets; papyrus is too fragile.

Microfilm is a good answer.

The book is:
The Singularity is Near:When Humans transcend Biology
By Ray Kurzweil

@Inspired_2write

Dude, the singularity is NOT about losing our digital side, it’s actually about merging biology and technology. If there is something that doesn’t suggest losing our digital information is the possibility of storing it directly inside your brain and vice versa.

Making backup such enormous information in a backup device is not possible (as i think).
And if it possible then how we can manage retrieval of any required information from such vast information hard copies.

So just hope we never face such grid (power) failure in our future

@Johnsmickle Making backup such enormous information in a backup device is not possible (as i think).
And you’re wrong in thinking that, but it’s not your fault. Making a backup in a single backup device is not possible, for now, but it’s also irrelevant. Every major databank worth its salt, such as every university, every institution such as the US national library and so on, has a whole battery of backup machines, computers dedicated to storing and preserving backups in multiple copies.

Hell, most companies do it in their own smaller way, with RAID setups

And if it possible then how we can manage retrieval of any required information from such vast information hard copies.
The retrieval is a different issue but, again, the issue is not with the retrieval itself, it’s with the distribution. A single institution, while requiring an absurd amount of energy to work properly, can still be powered, but that’s not going to allow you to reach the information.

Which means that should we lose the option to power the whole grid, all it takes is for a single institution to be powered in order to split and move the data to multiple physical drives and distribute them the same way you’d distribute books.

I doubt i need to remind anyone that there is such a thing as solar powered computers and, failing that, dynamos.

So just hope we never face such grid (power) failure in our future
That, i agree.