Drool though I may, I won't be getting an iPhone anytime soon. Why not? Because I'm pretty sure the three-year contractual straitjacket means that long before Year 3, I'll be stuck with almost-obsolete hardware.

If three years seems almost an eternity for present-day technology, spare a thought for archivists and librarians, digitizing texts for a 100-year window. Inside Higher Education describes the challenge of planning for digital holdings, "preserving works so that they can be accessed not just today, not just tomorrow, but indefinitely."

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