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It's also not so easy to put a revision on history when it's in physical copy to be referred to whenever needed. When all your historical documents are digital... how long before it's really possible to claim "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia"? That would be doubleplus ungood.
We should combine this thought exercise with the recent article about the theoretical possibility that we will become physically immortal in the foreseeable future. No reason to half-ass nonsense thought exercises.
High comedy... to have a few generations of people born and dying on a starship only to hail the call to dock with another ship one day delivering the GREAT news that someone discovered a faster way to travel.