SamT said:
NFTs on the blockchain anyone??
You joke, but that's an interesting concept regarding digital file longevity. On the assumption that NFTs do actually present the future for internet IP, this may well become a very well maintained and secure form of digital file (albeit open by design). Probably out of scope for "caving news articles" but who knows where it'll evolve to
I do find it funny when (typically older) people think a hard copy is a more secure form of data than electronic. This is actually an important topic when it comes to things like original paper survey sheets or photos. For me, it's not very secure until it's scanned, uploaded to the cloud, and shared. Once done the management and risk of this form of data is very small (but admittedly still not zero). Whereas a box of survey sheets in someones attic just needs that person to die and the access to and existence of that data is instantly severely at risk. And as for public/shared caches like libraries (which are great), one fire/flood/etc and it's all gone.
SamT said:
I know this is off topic #sorry - but my personal belief is that when humans are long extinct and some future species, or visiting aliens start to find evidence of our existence... all they find is stuff that's been carved into stone..
Thus the absolute pinnacle of humans intelligence, will be assume to have peaked somewhere around the end of the 19th century.
The entire 'digital' era is quite literally as ethereal as it appears.
Na, species advanced enough to physically reach us will know everything about humans before they arrive, regardless of how long dead we are. They'll have picked up our radiowaves echoing around the universe (probably how they found us in the first place) and will probably have collated all of our internet in the process. They'll also see all the civilisations we hopefully had on the other bodies in our solar system (if not further).