Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Film Demise
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:53:04 -0400

> No current digital medium is known to last more than 25 years. People
> suspect that CD Roms will, but no one knows. But we know film lasts 100
> years, because we have 100-year-old film that still holds its
> information.

Ah, this old 'topic' ;-)  Digital information, technically, can last
forever.  Since there is no information loss when making a copy, you can
copy it ad-infinitum.  The only problem is, you do have to keep copying
it...  Hopefully, the time between copying will increase over time...