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Pogue is right on. Some old motion pictures are gone because of the their media. If anything of value is stored on a 8-track tape is of value, it is even now hard to find a reader. Unless the reader is stored with the content and the reader will work hundreds of years from now. information and ideas will be lost.
Who is to say which ideas are important in the long term?
We do know many paper books have lasted for hundreds of years. Electronic storage is much more perishable. There needs to be a formal global non-political way to preserve electronic data or we will lose our history.
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