alt Hacker News> Put us in computers. We’ll stick around as digital ancestor spirits. Just to see how it goes.
It's cute to think that simply creating some digital representation of us would be a solution to such a problem when one of the founders of the internet has spoken at length about the dangers of hardware compatibility and media obsolescence putting much of today's data at risk from being inaccessible tomorrow.[0]
Nothing, and I mean nothing, is immune to the decay of time.
0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/13/386000092...
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OkayPhysicist • yesterday at 10:17 PM
If my files could beg for their lives to be kept up-to-date with new storage media, I probably wouldn't have lost so many over time.
Well, thanks I guess. I think it is a cute idea, not a serious one really. At least, I definitely haven’t worked the details.
We’d have to be maintained. Maybe that could be part of the deal. Humans are always changing anyway, so I think we’d couldn’t be left entirely at rest. Maybe we should be run slowly, to just to make sure things are still working. Then we don’t have to worry about at-rest type bitrot.