Stephanie Hughes

I met Jim Harkness, chief engineer for the Maryland Transportation Authority, down by the construction site, where there is a hum of activity.

You can see tugboats pushing barges with metal that'll support the bridge.

Harkness told me the new bridge will not be the same key bridge that was built in the 1970s.

It'll be higher and longer, spanning over two miles.

It'll also incorporate new technology.

We'll be right back.

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I'm Stephanie Hughes.

We're back with Jim Harkness, chief engineer for the Maryland Transportation Authority.

Jim Harkness.

He is chief engineer for the Maryland Transportation Authority.

Maryland expects the new bridge will be open to traffic in late 2030.

I'm Stephanie Hughes, and that's Marketplace Tech.

This is APM.

Just because something's in the cloud now doesn't mean it'll always be there.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

As a radio person, there are few worse feelings than when you realize some tape you thought you had nicely stored is actually gone.

And when I say tape, I mean the digital sound recording.

All digital files are stored on physical media such as hard drives or what's called LTO data tape.