I am personally a supporter of this foundation's mission -- more because it gives our civilization an alternative to cloud storage that is not controlled by Big

I am personally a supporter of this foundation's mission -- more because it gives our civilization an alternative to cloud storage that is not controlled by Big Tech. However, realistically, I don't think we can assume that storage prices will drop forever. That depends upon continued advances and breakthroughs in science, engineering, and commercialization efforts. I recognize that, ironically, Big Tech help drive storage prices down. It may be a generation, or five, or ten, but the tech advance boom won't go on forever. I don't know if the foundation will be around at that point. It is pretty ambitious, and perhaps, they may have to change their charter. The founder of the Internet Archive is on the governing board of this foundation, and I can easily see this idea cooked up as, "hey, what if every Joe and Mary can have their own micro Internet Archive?" "People have photos of their great great grandmothers 100 years ago, but everyone's stuff is no digital; what if they could have saved that for their kids? Would they have a place to stash it even after they die? ('cause, you know, no subscription fees) Can you depend on Facebook to memorialize that?" (One of the people on their board is involved in a geaneological company) I think it is a good vision, although their plan is not without risk. (But what isn't?) We're also depending on our descendants to value these personal, mini vaults of data to keep donating to preserve it (if the endownment model does not work). But you know: we would be dead and it would not be up to us to value and preserve our own history. I am really surprised at the amount of backlash I see on this forum for it.