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Digital Dark Age

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Preventing a NASA Dark Age 8 min
Vint Cerf and Our Uncertain Digital Future 6 min
The Solar Flare Scenario 6 min
Surviving A Solar Flare 6 min
The Storage Potential of DNA 8 min
Margaret Atwood Writes for the Future 12 min
Operation Digital Data Rescue

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What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we were cut off from our electronic records?

About On The Media

WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our world view. Veteran journalists Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield give you the tools to survive the media maelstrom.