Fresh and New

Fresh and New

21. On old software & media

Seb Chan
Jun 22, 2019
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This one is vaguely about preservation practices, especially software preservation. Given that almost “all the things” that didn’t run on software now do, that probably means “general social history preservation” from 2020 onwards. At least until the rolling power outages arrive.

Back in Cooper Hewitt days, Aaron Cope and I had the good fortune to be al…

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