Comment Re:Won't matter (Score 0) 287
That reminds me just a little bit of Wall-E.
Here's to hoping it never comes to that.
I've spent plenty of time working in archives for a museum in Chicago and this is an interesting point that I've never really thought of.
Here I am spending hours a day archiving manuscripts and scanning letters and signatures into digital to have for the future and safe-keeping but who will upkeep it in the future.
Looking into it, this doesn't seem like that big of an issue.
Digital media is so easy to transfer and copy at such high speeds... Its almost a wonder how we manage to know so much about those before us. Especially the way they used to transfer information (in candle-lit monasteries on flimsy paper). The way things are now, the future will know way more about us than we will ever know about those before us.