Linda Tadic

In a thousand years, you won't be able to play it, you know, because the software, the hardware won't exist to be able to play that file.

It is hard.

People should know that the cloud has a heavy weight.

The cloud is using the same physical data storage media as we all are.

And people need to know that because it's so easy just to have it out of sight, out of mind.

They need to understand that their data is being stored in environments on data media, which has finite lives.

They are physical just as we are.

They are mechanical.

They're going to fail just as we do.

Everything's going to fail.

unless you put it on a rock and even rocks can grow over time.

You know, so that's why with digital storage, you have to migrate it.

That's just the mindset.

You know, it's just a fact of life.

You know, digital is here to stay.

That's how we live now.

Yes.

So WIPR, which is the Puerto Rican public broadcaster, radio and television, they had quarter inch analog reel-to-reel recordings that they had created of their radio shows back from the 1950s into the 80s.

They got a grant to digitize those.

This was back in 2007, 2008.