What would you use to keep (digital) data safe for at least a hundred years? Maxwell Neely-Cohen looks at all the factors, possible technologies, social and economic challenges that you have to contend with if you intentionally want to store data for a century. He explicitly chose that time scale, because it is at the edge of what a human can experience, but it is outside of a single human’s work life as well as beyond the lifetime of most companies or institutions. So the premise sets you up for a host of problems to be solved. He also analyses strategies for recording and keeping data past and present and evaluates their potential for keeping data safe at century-scale.
It’s long, but worth it.