obviousSun, Mar 23, 2008 The internet should make some of these worries antiquated. Its 'self' organising format allows data to exist with no central location. One server goes down and another hub in the system steps up to fill the gap - kind of like the way a brain self organises, a system we would do well to copy in kind. There must be ways to force these systems to output their stored potential in a form which would last beyond their current (fragile) magnetic components.
The recent opening of the '100 million year seed store' in the arctic is the kind of technological firewall we should aim towards with all our important accumulations. Perhaps the form this would take (for data) is something The Total Library Project could play around with...
The internet should make some of these worries antiquated. Its 'self' organising format allows data to exist with no central location. One server goes down and another hub in the system steps up to fill the gap - kind of like the way a brain self organises, a system we would do well to copy in kind. There must be ways to force these systems to output their stored potential in a form which would last beyond their current (fragile) magnetic components.
The recent opening of the '100 million year seed store' in the arctic is the kind of technological firewall we should aim towards with all our important accumulations. Perhaps the form this would take (for data) is something The Total Library Project could play around with...