Perhaps, but I tend to believe the data, as we depend more and more on the 'cloud' won't be tied to physical mediums (or particular physical mediums) and instead be towed along as technology and the mediums improve.
100 terabytes of information now will likely be absurdly easy to store 100 years from now, and we don't lose what we have now because data centers will just upgrade and move the data to better storage platforms as they are invented and deployed.
Athropology of the future may not include digging up hard drives in garbage dumps. Instead you just run the latest google search.
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Perhaps, but I tend to believe the data, as we depend more and more on the 'cloud' won't be tied to physical mediums (or particular physical mediums) and instead be towed along as technology and the mediums improve.
100 terabytes of information now will likely be absurdly easy to store 100 years from now, and we don't lose what we have now because data centers will just upgrade and move the data to better storage platforms as they are invented and deployed.
Athropology of the future may not include digging up hard drives in garbage dumps. Instead you just run the latest google search.