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Sometimes I imagine how historians in 1000 years will view our world of today. It is a funny thought that they might perceive our world like someone that only consumes indy art, because all commercial art will have been lost.

A related thought is that we probably will never reach the level of durability and redundancy of CDs and DVDs again ever.

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>A related thought is that we probably will never reach the level of durability and redundancy of CDs and DVDs again ever.

This might be true for mass media, strong maybe, but it’s absolutely not true in general. You could use a laser cutter to cut holes in a glass or gold plate or something, if you extrapolate that to the far future you could imagine it would be something the average person could achieve in their home much like 3d printing is easily accessible now. Dvds after all are not that robust, they have long term issues.

Sure, technology has advanced and we certainly could make something with higher durability and redundancy.

But why would we do that?

My point is that the reasons for CDs and DVDs happening do not exist anymore and will never come back.

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