23 Feb
2007
23 Feb
'07
7:41 p.m.
Al Kossow 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? Yes, I suspect so. Will that ever
happen? No, because society's not geared around "short termism" rather than
producing things that will last several generations.
is there
currently or will there ever be a good long time
permanent solution for good promising backups?
no the good news is that transfer rates and bit density
increase with
time, so old data is easier to migrate
the bad news is the amount of data to migrate is increasing exponentially
... and it's never a done deal that reliability over a "long enough" period
of
time will actually increase.
cheers
Jules