Vint Cerf fears a ‘digital dark age,’ and your data could be at risk

In this era of the all-pervasive cloud, it’s easy to assume that the data we store will somehow be preserved forever. The only thing to fret about from a posterity perspective, we might think, is the analog information from days gone by — all the stuff on papers, tapes and other pre-digital formats that haven’t been explicitly converted.

Vinton Cerf, often called “the father of the Internet,” has other ideas.