≥ This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that happen? How should the bits in your stewardship be stored with such a target in mind? How do our methods and platforms look when considered under the harsh unknowns of a century?
As a tech guy and as an historian, I worry a lot about how much of our collective knowledge and creative legacy will survive the digital age. And this incredibly deep dive into the question both answers a lot of my questions and raises quite a few new ones.
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