Such an interesting thing to think about. The implications of (relative to a human life) long periods of time are overwhelming. At some point, even if somehow t

Such an interesting thing to think about. The implications of (relative to a human life) long periods of time are overwhelming. At some point, even if somehow the information is intact, who will read it, and why? The barrier to entry scales with time, add technology and it probably scales at a geometric rate, for anything which is not held in such high cultural esteem that it is constantly maintained and updated. Sure, we can play Dungeon (1975) today with relative ease. Most won't. But what about all the other games that probably survived but nobody knows about, because they weren't historically significant enough? This probably goes for any cultural articact music, writing, paintings. It becomes lost, if not physically, then in the giant volume of knowledge that exists in the world, but nobody knows about. A poem, in an ASCII file, on an obsolete file system, in some disk image with an operating system for an architecture not produces in a hundred years, that could be emulated by an emulator for another architecture no produces in a hundred years, now residing on some medium, on some machine, somewhere, all will be lost in time, like tears in rain.