> This data will be stored on 3,500-foot film reels, provided and encoded by Piql, a Norwegian company that specializes in very-long-term data storage. The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated aging tests indicate Piql’s film will last twice as long.
> The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser.
There are many other strategies that last much longer than ink on paper. Combine that with the fact that beyond an extinction event, there will always be computers that can share ebooks between them, and the longevity is basically as long as humanity exists. Except with ebooks + something like bittorrent, I can create 1,000,000 copies almost instantly, distributed around the world.
> This data will be stored on 3,500-foot film reels, provided and encoded by Piql, a Norwegian company that specializes in very-long-term data storage. The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated aging tests indicate Piql’s film will last twice as long.
> The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser.
There are many other strategies that last much longer than ink on paper. Combine that with the fact that beyond an extinction event, there will always be computers that can share ebooks between them, and the longevity is basically as long as humanity exists. Except with ebooks + something like bittorrent, I can create 1,000,000 copies almost instantly, distributed around the world.