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Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the things-i-need-for-my-basement dept.

TrentL writes "How will we be able to read 1990's email messages in the year 2090? Will GIF files still be accessible in 2105? The US National Archives - tasked with preserving records "for the life of the republic" - has chosen Lockheed Martin to solve exactly this problem. Lockheed was awarded the $308M Electronic Records Archives contract after a year-long design competition. Full Disclosure: I worked on Lockheed's demo team."

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  1. mod qdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I know it sux0rs, OpenBSD wanker Theo fueling internal fOrwards we must

  2. The Singularity Is Near by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Worrying about human formats beyond 2100? Are you people fucking crazy?

    This reminds me of all those idiots clamoring for environmental protections for "future generations" when we're only about 40 years away from hitting the Singularity.

    Wake up, people. 100 years from now, there won't even be human beings as we know them today.