Glug, Glug - Drowning in Data

The exponential explosion of digital scientific research e-mails and twitter messages looms as a problem for future storage of significant digital data. No longer trailing a paper path, new and newly discovered scientific data is in danger of being lost because the storage devices that work in the here-and-now become obsolete as the next storage format emerges. This from a fascinting and cautionery article from WSJ Online, A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians.