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My bet is that in 2124 we will be able to use our eyes to read the original paper documents but we won't be able to read the 2024 digital copies anymore, unless
by pmontra 3y ago
My bet is that in 2124 we will be able to use our eyes to read the original paper documents but we won't be able to read the 2024 digital copies anymore, unless we keep migrating them to the next standard.
Furthermore the servers (hw+sw) are not for free and all government projects use to cost more than market prices.
And finally, why does storing paper documents on shelves cost 4.5 M per year?
- maxerickson 3y agoComputing environments haven't changed a whole lot in the last 25 years, and current environments aren't that much bother to emulate. The ongoing integrity of the storage seems like a much larger concern than displaying the documents.
- pmontra 3y agoI have the floppy disks of my first Slackware Linux installation. I'm not sure if I can still read them. I should have a Toshiba laptop from year 2000 with a floppy disk reader but will it work? Of course if I cared about those files (I don't) I should have copied them to a HDD, then to a SSD like I did with everything else. Think of archives on tapes and the plans to keep moving them across storage technology. That costs too and if you fail at that eventually all you have is an unreadable piece of plastic and silicon. Maybe you should save copies to at least two of the major could storages and let them do the job of keeping current. I won't destroy the original though.