Personne on Nostr: Most of our contemporary culture and civilisation is stored in petabytes of ...
Most of our contemporary culture and civilisation is stored in petabytes of electronic data. What happens if all of them fail in some catastrophe, they degrade over a few hundred years or we lose the means and the knowledge of how to read them, in the distant future? What little we know about ancient civilisations is mostly what was left from stone carvings and a very rare fraction of organic materials (wood, papyrus, paper, parchemin).
It's a bit scary, really.
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