abstract:The digital dark age is a possible future situation where it will be difficult or impossible to read historical electronic documents and multimedia, because they have been stored in an obsolete and obscure file format. The name derives from the term Dark Ages in the sense that there would be a relative lack of written record.
Enterprise software from firms such as SAP, Oracle and Baan has factories and accounting departments running smoothly, more or less, but marketing is still in a digitaldarkage.