hi yvanleterrible
I disagree.
Photos printed on paper do not stand the test of time. They fade.
It's better to archive the photos on CDs and then rewrite the disks every once in a while.
Books have actually better proved better as archives than photos... that's of course only until the library burns down.
Regarding understanding our own digital file format a few years later... I think it's just the same as understanding our alphabet.
See the trouble we had reading Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Inca khipus. and those were not some non-standard file formats
