What are the golden plates of our time? A thousand years ago, if you wanted to make sure information was going to be around for your children’s children’s children, you took out your chisel and started hacking away on metal plates–preferably golden.
What are my options today? I have several thousand digital pictures, a digital journal, a weblog and pretty much every hour of work I’ve done for the last 5 years are all in digital format. From what I’ve read, I can expect a hard drive to last maybe 10 years, CD?s not much longer… what else is there? Are all my captured memories, all my work and all my writings going to be around for my grandkids? Should I stop using a computer and start learning how to etch metal?
Maybe I sound nostalgic, but really… how do you make sure something digital lasts longer than the medium it’s on?