But this disk, unless I'm mistaken, can be updated on the fly. It also provides a primitive starting point to read our current storage mediums, which if the wor

But this disk, unless I'm mistaken, can be updated on the fly. It also provides a primitive starting point to read our current storage mediums, which if the world were to end in 2012 could provide an alien civilisation a glimpse of what we were (if they take the journey).