This seriously worries me. Every generation thinks that what they do is disposable and not worth preserving. Source code from even just 20 years ago discarded a

This seriously worries me. Every generation thinks that what they do is disposable and not worth preserving. Source code from even just 20 years ago discarded and lost, priceless and one of a kind computer systems thrown into the sea, old movies and books completely lost. While nothing has really changed in regards to the value current generations place on current production, what has changed it seems is our ability to rediscover these lost artifacts. Newly printed books will rot away in a century or two, the memories and data we keep on company servers will be thrown away either on purpose or by accident (just look at myspace) or be otherwise inaccessible. No longer will our kids be able to find old pictures of their dad or an old diary from when we were young. Hell, I don’t even have anymore all the code or essays I wrote in college, and I would give a lot to get those things back (not even including the 25btc I carelessly let get destroyed). Archive is doing a great job, but as more and more content moves behind unfindable and unindexable corporate pages, it’s nowhere near good enough. It would be really cool if such a technology exist that you could write data once on to some chip or piece of glass or whatever that you could read again and again forever. It’s really important that we try and solve these problems, if not for us, but the people that come after.