Funnily enough, digital signals/data can actually be preserved perfectly and indefinitely because of its property perfect regeneration. Most efficient way to do it is to replicate it before it decays below regeneration. That one star review can outlast any stone tablet if it keeps on being copied.
Most things last very long if stored properly. People tend to not do that, though. Probably why low-maintenance, high-permanence formats tend to keep the best.
Funnily enough, digital signals/data can actually be preserved perfectly and indefinitely because of its property perfect regeneration. Most efficient way to do it is to replicate it before it decays below regeneration. That one star review can outlast any stone tablet if it keeps on being copied.
(And source)
It started as a joke but nowadays more and more old memes and screenshots can only be found in conditions like the last panel.
Reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/QEzhxP-pdos
It’s a reference to good ol’ Ea-nāṣir
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trementina_Base
you have not an eternity machine no
Sure. But I thought it was assumed that we were talking about writing that would survive without any additional interaction for extended periods.
If nobody is there to refresh the digital data, tablets, and papyrus, two of these will last millennia, one won’t even make two centuries.
Most things last very long if stored properly. People tend to not do that, though. Probably why low-maintenance, high-permanence formats tend to keep the best.
We could store words on paper indefinitely if we keep copying it to fresh paper every so offen.
Obviously thats not practical or guaranteed for all of future history.