Dead Media Beat: frailty of storage media

*Yet another in a ragged series of "digital dark age" articles, but this one has a twist: it posits a future brief breakdown of civilization.

*So, say the lights go out for five years… You pull the power plug, wait five years, plug it back in. What's left of the digital infrastructure? Not a heck of a lot, folks.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527451.300-digital-doomsday-the-end-of-knowledge.html?page=1

*An interesting corollary would be to ask what became of the planet's wealth....