[NTLUG:Discuss] CD Turning 25

[Dennis Rice]

An article on Slashdot today says that the CD, originially introduced 
by Philips, is today 25 years old.  I have been thinking lately, so 
where is mass storage going in the future (get out your foggy 
forecasting applications)?  We are seeing the demise of the floppy 
disk for storage, ZIP drives are really now "dead" (?), Syquest drives 
are long since dead (but I still have them with valuable data and no 
way to read them), CDs are being replaced with DVDs, higher capacity 
disks are in the works.....

So how does one insure that data is not lost (as I have done with my 
old Syquest) as technology advances?  What are your thoughts and 
predictions?  What would you do to insure that information is not 
lost?  In my case, the information is scans of old family photos which 
can no longer be scanned in again.  In the business world, it can be 
much more critical, but the end question remains as technology advances.

As advances are made, it is more difficult to look back.

Dennis