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Launch: Our Data, Our Future

I’m really excited to announce that New York based Robin Riback and I are launching a new short podcast called “Our Data, Our Future – A short podcast with big ideas”

It will be a 7 to 10-minute monthly discussion about how, where, and why we preserve our data: that is, our electronic stories, our identity, and our lives.

Episode #1 – data storage and its future – will be available this coming Tuesday, 14 October and will be available on both of our substacks.

If you like the sound of it, you can subscribe now (for free) on either of our substacks – nudgethefuture and/or robinriback – so that when this and upcoming episodes are broadcast, you’ll get notified by email right away.

Here’s a trailer for what you can expect.

Is our convenience burning the planet?

I was fascinated by a talk last year about data storage given by Thomas Coughlin, president of the IEEE. What struck me most was finding out that magnetic tape storage is still used and not only is it cheaper than other mediums but its environmental impact is far less too.

So, this got me to thinking.

Why don’t we have a choice on how to store our emails and photos – those we don’t mind waiting 30 seconds to retrieve? Why can’t we choose to have them stored on magnetic tape?

Continue reading the post and the subsequent conversation on substack…