But the data on hard drives last a finite amount of time. And so do paper books. Time wears away at both.
Re:Ur
by throwaway932489 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:56PM
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Good thing we create things like "forever chemicals", nuclear waste, single-use plastics then I guess ;)
Ok, but we don't know which kind of catastrophic event will wipe us out this time. So we can't know in advance which kind of media will survive best. Replication across many mediums seems the best approach, but it doesn't give us certainty.
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