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ninch-announce: "Into the Future" screens on PBS in January

ninch-announce: "Into the Future" screens on PBS in January

"Into the Future" screens on PBS in January

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 17:06:30 -0500 

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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 17:06:30 -0500
To: ninch-announce@cni.org
From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: "Into the Future" screens on PBS in January


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
December 23, 1997


SAVE THE DATE: JAN 13, 1998


                               "INTO THE FUTURE:
           ON THE PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE"
         <http://www.pbs.org/whatson/1998/01/descriptions/INFU.html>

Terry Sanders' film will be shown nationally on PBS at 10pm on Tuesday
Jan. 13 (but check local listings). 

A sequel to Sanders' award-winning "Slow Fires: On the Preservation of
the Human Record," "Into the Future" was produced by the American Film
Foundation in association with the Commission on Preservation and Access
and the American Council of Learned Societies. 


"This program confronts the hidden crisis of the digital information age
-- will the human record, as it is increasingly stored in fragile and
complex digital forms, survive into the future? Will people have access
to current electronically-recorded knowledge and history of our time 20,
50 or 100 years from today? The program provides examples of the
impending crisis and features insights from articulate shapers and
philosophers of the Information Age.  The special is narrated by Robert
MacNeil."--PBS program notes

A review of the film by Paul Wallich in the January 1998 issue of
Scientific American, "Preserving the Word," is available at
<http://www.sciam.com/0198issue/0198review2.html>. 

"Into the Future" can be ordered from The American Film Foundation as a
one-hour or 30-minute VHS tape; contact: 310/459-2116. 


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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
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