a semi-serious thread: how is digital preservation depicted in fictional movies or books?
I’ll kick off with The Silo (2023): a dystopian serie set in the future where humanity resides in an enclave. In this society, both physical and digital cultural artifacts from the past are banned. But a 140 years old hard drive is found… https://digipres.club/@raffaele/110326856709648207
@raffaele from #Brooklyn99 has a few I’ll need to look up, but this is one I like!
> “I like to backup my data every 15 minutes and it’s taking 17 minutes to perform the backup… I’m in a data backup deficit!”
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/bded3f95-214e-4df2-b8d1-e42469a5fe95
One episode of “The Thick of it” was about “massive irretrievable data loss”. Here are a few fragments I found (featuring some classic Malcolm Tucker rants):
