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I'm struggling to envision a situation where some future humans have enough technology to read back terabytes of data from laser nanostructures but don't have a

• eesmith 8y ago
  SF provides several examples. One is A Canticle for Leibowitz. The survivors of a nuclear war (the "Flame Deluge") decide to destroy everything which lead to the development of nuclear weapons. The process, called "The Simplification", included killing people who could read and destroying all books. By 3781, humans once again have nuclear weapons ... and starships and extra-solar colonies. They would be able to read back TBs of data from laser nanostructures, but not have much knowledge of human history before about 3174.