Have you ever wondered how far a ‘light-year’ is? Approximately 9,460,000,000,000 km using… In the end the filmmakers had to animate Woody and Buzz Lightyear from scratch. Although they managed to open the files, the characters were essentially trapped in a ‘read-only’ format. NASA has employed many ‘space rangers’ in its time, but few are more famous than…įirst introduced as the friend of Woody the cowboy in Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ (1995) and subsequent sequels.ĭid you know: that when Pixar made Toy Story 3 the team went back to the animation files created for the original film in the early 90s? However, what they found was that they were created in a format that was rarely used anymore. It is also true that some of the information they create remains extremely valuable as a primary record of historically significant events.ĭid you know, however, that NASA destroyed its only high-resolution footage of the first Apollo 11 moon walk? The records were ‘taped over’ in an effort to save money, without the appropriate assessment of what value the records would retain over long periods of time. Using technology to access and process data underpins everything that NASA does, both in space and on the ground. Bacon plays astronaut Jack Swigert who works for… It’s difficult to pick just one of his best films, but let’s take Apollo 13 (1995). This, of course, gave me an idea… if Kevin Bacon could link himself to mobile phones, can I link him to good digital information management in six steps? And what ‘cautionary tales’ can I bring in along the way?
#Kevin bacon six degrees of separation series#
A recent TV advert plays on this idea by linking their 4G mobile phone company to actor Kevin Bacon in under 30 seconds, using a series of tenuous connections. Which brings me to the ‘six degrees of separation’: the concept that you are only ever six steps of ‘connection’ from anyone else in the world. Bacon to information management in six steps (ref.