over the years i have come to feel the best preservation of information is not actually technology, it is culture. instilling the cultural value of respect for knowledge and history is the only actual way that knowledge gets preserved.

we go through cycles of anti-intellectualism as a species and the anti-intellectuals will always find a way to attack knowledge regardless of technology used to preserve it. if you carve stones, they will break them. if you write books they will burn them. if you make an internet they will firewall it or buy it or sue it. if you put plates of nickel on the moon, they will figure out how to go there, dig it up, and destroy it too. but most of all what they do is attack the idea of the intellectual as valuable to society.

Look at how we treat Aaron Swartz and Alexandra Elbakyan. We treat them like criminals, while people who jail and murder intellectuals we call leaders and presidents. We live in an anti-intellectual era right now.

Not that it is not important to try. but there are some problems we cant solve by tech alone. We have to figure out what is wrong with us, as a species, that we constantly try to destroy our own knowledge.