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Assuming the hard drives survive and someone can read them. The advantage of paper is that you just have to understand the language. Digital archives require a
by zrail 8y ago
Assuming the hard drives survive and someone can read them. The advantage of paper is that you just have to understand the language. Digital archives require a lot of technology to read, even before you get to the point of understanding the language.
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoYeah there's definitely a chance that it won't survive. In which case the opposite conclusion is equally interesting, since this period would be an uncharacteristically Dark Age, with very little written paper to store as its memory. No one writes diaries anymore.
- adrianN 8y agoI'd guess that there are still orders of magnitudes more paper diaries, newspapers and other records around than a few hundred years ago. General literacy is a very recent thing.
- toastal 8y agoI mean we do that with dead languages... We piece them together given related langugages and clues in the grammar. I'm sure we can turn zeros and ones back into something readable... And our encryption will be so inadequate that everything we want hidden now from governments, et. al. will be readable in the diary sense later.
- umanwizard 8y agoWhat makes you think current encryption is breakable?
- decasia 8y agoWell, I still write diaries on paper. But I worry that one day they might get lost or destroyed and I wonder if I should scan them all, at least for the sake of having an offsite digital backup for the time being :)