Century-Scale Storage
Maxwell Neely-Cohen,
Harvard Law School,
Dec 11, 2024
This is a nice (though long) article by Maxwell Neely-Cohen asking the basic question, "If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?" He runs through all the likely answers, including dispersal and decentralized storage, before reaching the inevidable conclusion that "the success of century-scale storage comes down to the same thing that storage and preservation of any duration does: maintenance." Neely-Cohen also warns that we might be entering a 'dark age' where most of what we produce is lost to the future. "On the internet, Alexandria burns daily." Via Molly White, who gives us a long thread of relevant quotes from the article.
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