> theoretically maintain content availability for as long as anybody wants to keep it available, not just whoever originally published it I'd argue that this i

> theoretically maintain content availability for as long as anybody wants to keep it available, not just whoever originally published it I'd argue that this is probably as good as we can get. Even if something is built-to-last, a person can still throw something away (and indeed many people find good stuff in dumpsters!) If nobody is willing to pay the cost to actually host something, then it goes "into the trash" so to speak. I realize that physical goods last even in the trash, but that's not something a digital good can ever be unless it's serialized to some form of storage. VPRI (of Alan Kay fame) has published an interesting paper [1] trying to create a Cuneiform Tablet of code. [1]: The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 - http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf