Into the Future.American Film Foundation Will humans 20, 50, or 100 years from today have access to the electronically recorded knowledge and history of our time? Produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders and aired on many PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, stations, this thought-provoking video asks if the human record, as it is increasingly stored in fragile, ephemeral Temporary. Fleeting. Transitory. , and complex digital electronic forms, will endure. Into the Future questions * What happened to reel-to-reel? * Can we still read those magnetic tapes from early Voyager probes into outer space? * Will information on CD-ROMs survive into the future? This sequel to the PBS award-winning film Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record, Into the Future features such extraordinary shapers of the Information Age as Peter Norton Peter Norton (born November 14 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist. Biography Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington, U.S., North America. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1965. (founder of Norton Utilities Widely used utility programs for Windows and Macintosh from Symantec. Used to fix problems and fine tune the machine, they include functions to restore deleted files, diagnose the disk for corrupted data, defragment the disk and clean up and track changes to the Registry. ) and Tim Berners-Lee (person) Tim Berners-Lee - The man who invented the World-Wide Web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the World-Wide Web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. (father of the World Wide Web). This video is ideal for generating discussion about these issues in your organizations. Its urgent and timely message is an indispensable addition to every media library. ISBN: None (American Film Foundation) VHS videotape, English, 33 minutes, 1997 Catalog No. B4613 $42 ARMA member or non-member [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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