I think the point is that small data can be continuously carried over to new mediums if it's valuable enough. How many pre 1st century writings will fit on a 2

I think the point is that small data can be continuously carried over to new mediums if it's valuable enough. How many pre 1st century writings will fit on a 20TB hard drive? I'd venture to say - all of them. > Would the data produced in the first week of 2099 be worth more than all of history prior to 1900 just because there's more? No, and I think that's why we're mostly in agreement. Valuable and small data will always have accessible interfaces, because it is propagated throughout many mediums. If there's an apocalypse scenario looming, you bet your butt that someone will be printing the most valuable information to good old paper, in case all machine-readable interfaces vanish overnight (unlikely scenario that I'm not going to lose sleep over).