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Eventually you'll lose your drive, and therefore data if you don't backup. In 58,000 years none of the data would be intact if not through pretty extreme effor
by mod 9y ago
Eventually you'll lose your drive, and therefore data if you don't backup.
In 58,000 years none of the data would be intact if not through pretty extreme efforts to preserve it.
I guess maybe we'll find ways to encode data onto physical media, but I don't think my facebook (or HN) posts are going to make the cut.
- tryingagainbro 9y ago>> "Eventually you'll lose your drive, and therefore data if you don't backup." True, but someone will come up with a "databank" of sorts. Who knows, we might backup on DNA or space, as in cosmos. Is what we type right now escaping in space like TV transmissions? Any physics major here?
- Retra 9y agoSome of it goes into space (if it's transmitted the right way), but most will be drowned in noise. None of that matters though, since you can't get in front of the outgoing signal to receive it at a future date. It would have to be reflected, which would also introduce a large amount of noise.
- tryingagainbro 9y agoThanks makes sense. We see what is coming to us, and maybe nothing will be reflected considering expansion and all. BUT it is out there and an advanced civilization might figure it out (not that they might need it but curiosity)
- marcosdumay 9y agoThis is a lot of people losing their drivers in a relatively short time. No generation had a life so well preserved as we have. Whatever we can reconstruct about previous generations lives, future archeologists will get hundreds of times more.
- Waterluvian 9y agoOne day we will have cheap, reliable, ubiquitous digital storage that we don't even think about. Future archaeology will be about digital spelunking and untangling of massive amounts of data that isn't properly catalogued or given context.