Posted by s.hettrick on 30 April 2012 - 10:51am

This week's Economist leads with an article about the wide-ranging effects of losing data "Mistakes 30 years ago mean that much of the early digital age is already a closed book (or no book at all) to historians". Do we need to legislate to ensure that data is collected and stored, and who's going to foot the bill?

Read the article on the Economist website.