Into the Future.

• Position: Video Recording Review

American Film Foundation

Will humans 20, 50, or 100 years from today have access to the electronically recorded knowledge and history of our time? Produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders and aired on many PBS stations, this thought-provoking video asks if the human record, as it is increasingly stored in fragile, ephemeral, and complex digital electronic forms, will endure. Into the Future questions

* What happened to reel-to-reel?

* Can we still read those magnetic tapes from early Voyager probes into outer space?

* Will information on CD-ROMs survive into the future?

This sequel to the PBS award-winning film Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record, Into the Future features such extraordinary...