> Books and printed photos have survived so well because... They've survived so well because there's multiple copies of them. The higher the number of copies,

> Books and printed photos have survived so well because... They've survived so well because there's multiple copies of them. The higher the number of copies, the greater the chances that something will survive. And we live in an era of contents reproduced millions of times in a fully automated way, without any effort and in negligible time. Even if the constant copy and distribution of material over the internet and in data centers should cease at some point in the future, just think of all the copies of books and movies and pictures that are presently sitting in dusty hard drives inside dead laptops or at the back of some drawer.