<story><title>Civilizational Collapse, Part 4</title><url>https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/civilizational-collapse-part-4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddxxdd</author><text>This feels reminiscent of the current issue of long-term data storage.&lt;p&gt;Flash drives are volatile and can lose your data any minute. Solid State drives are slightly less volatile, and a hard disk has magnetic fields that will last decades, but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists. If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I enjoy reading John Baez&amp;#x27;s answers to common physics questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;baez&amp;#x2F;physics&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;baez&amp;#x2F;physics&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&amp;gt;  If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.&lt;p&gt;There is no form of storage that cannot be destroyed. Even stone scriptures eventually erode and fade away. The best thing we can do is duplicate everything as much as we can and hope to reduce the loss over time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Civilizational Collapse, Part 4</title><url>https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/civilizational-collapse-part-4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddxxdd</author><text>This feels reminiscent of the current issue of long-term data storage.&lt;p&gt;Flash drives are volatile and can lose your data any minute. Solid State drives are slightly less volatile, and a hard disk has magnetic fields that will last decades, but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists. If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I enjoy reading John Baez&amp;#x27;s answers to common physics questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;baez&amp;#x2F;physics&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;baez&amp;#x2F;physics&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>24gttghh</author><text>&amp;gt;but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists&lt;p&gt;Not so, it seems:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.archmission.org&amp;#x2F;5d-optical-memory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.archmission.org&amp;#x2F;5d-optical-memory&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>