Why paper still cuts it
12 October 2015 - 02:39
The world faces an information "dark age" because so much data is stored digitally, a leading scientist has warned. Professor David Garner, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said that wherever possible scientific data should be printed and kept in paper archives to avoid crucial research being lost to future generations.
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