Central Line Stock at Epping - 1 August 2020

I agree with you. My concern is whether digital records will be still accessible decades on. When my social services department was looking to digitize its client records in the 1970s, I travelled out with manager and a techie colleague to a cutting edge data storage consultancy at Amersham, or was Aylesbury. We were shown a system using big storage discs - about 9 or 10 inches across, If we had used them we would have had to transfer all the data within a couple of years and again a few years later probably. I know jpegs have been designed to be a long term medium, but if they do become so dated as to be obsolete, who will decide which of the billions, there will then be, should be transferred to a new medium. I have just scanned 1300+ family photos from 1860 to 1950 and sent copies to family members, but who knows how many generations will get the benefit of them.