The demise of Kodak isn’t just the end of a company…it is the end of photographic history. In fifty years, when your grandchildren want to see pictures of you or their parents, you will not have them. Digital corrodes and thumbdrives corrupt. Hard drives wear out and can’t be read or advance so your aged disks can not be read. So where does that leave your memories and photos…gone. People who abandoned film for the instant convenience of digital will pay the price in the years to come when all their memories are just that, in their minds because there are no photos….

How Kodak Succumbed to the Digital Age

The most important moments of the 20th century were captured on Kodak film. But the once-dominant American company could not compete in the digital age. Eastman Kodak’s bankruptcy has left the company’s remaining employees with uncertain futures.
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