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Permanence in a "throw away" society? <shrug>
If one cares, technology can be made more durable; but nobody really cares (except for a few oddballs). Think vintage cars, for example.
Yes, digital information needs to be maintained. OTOH, maintenance is usually simple, if one does it in a timely manner. Most of the "horror stories" come from people/organizations who wouldn't bother to do that maintenance until the tech was so old that conversion methods had been scrapped. 8" floppy drive in 2022? Why hadn't they been converted decades ago to 5 1/4" floppies in the 1980's, and those to 3 1/2 (or hard drives) in the 1990's? (and those multiply backed up?) A days work both times.
I keep my data in commonly used, open sourced, formats; and in on-site, and off-site, storages. And for the most part, I use it on off line (no internet access) machines. My data is far more valuable that the machines it's used on, or the storage it's stored on.
It's DRM that kills data, much more so than obsolescence,
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