I'm not saying that digital storage is a perfect solution, all I'm saying is that it's better than paper. You give examples of the difficulty of maintaining digital information that you've had, because of device incompatibilities over the last 20 years. But think of trying to maintain paper copies of information at a time when printing was still a new technology. I'd say it would be well nigh impossible for a private individual to do. The very fact that you can now maintain some personally created digital information is a great leap forward.
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