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Talking about preserving information on media... paper is actually pretty good when treated correctly... early forms include things like papyrus and old Chinese (they did invent paper after all) material that are still perfectly viable after thousands of years. Whilst the language may change, paper has a constant interface that require no work to deal with media and tech changes... The BBC (in the UK for our US cousins) set up a project called the Domesday Project to document life in the 20th Century using computers and Laser discs... then it was realised that they no longer had the means to access the material and had to scrabble round for anyone with the old equipment so they could then transfer to more modern systems but it took some time to track down. Books don't have that problem although they have problems of their own for archiving but these are well-known by now and relatively easy to handle...
The only real solution to archival survival lies in producing multiple copies in multiple formats distributed through multiple physical locations and whenever any get physically damaged/destroyed, replaced immediately...
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