At 02:04 PM 2/23/2007, William Donzelli wrote:
Good answer :)
Certainly not permanent. Could we (as a species) theoretically
make something that will last for a fairly significant (from a human POV)
length of time, such as a few hundred years?
Art.
So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data is to use
steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
redundant fashion all around the world.
Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
I'll stop now.
- John