Post-Cloud Archaeology

Keeping our information on digital media has its costs that can’t be paid forever. At some point the archaeologists will find an information gap from the civilisation that couldn’t find the technology to store its information better than the previous ones who used to use stone, clay, vellum or paper. <img alt="Eleusis, 2023, Photo by me." src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*dLE5jSYFsDSNz46Ciq6saA.jpeg" style="height:700px; width:700px" /> Elefsina, 2023, Photo by me. More than ten years back I was asked by an IT Manager of a very large museum on recommendation of a media to store information for the next two hundreds years. Even though two hundred years may seem like a long period, 5% has already passed since he had asked me and I still don't have the answer. If you take in consideration that the digitalisation of museum's artefacts such as very old books can take months or years, it can take decades to digitalise the entire libraries, then two hundreds years are basically nothing. Can the information stored on existing digital storages used in 2024 last more than decades? <a href="https://medium.com/@OndrejMichalak/post-cloud-archaeology-332707341cff">Click Here</a>