No need for an apocalypse, one good solar flare should do the job!
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Michele R Combs
Sent: 04 March 2010 15:57
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Subject: Re: Long term storage of digital records
Now there's a possible outcome that's not often covered in workshops LOL!
Michele
(big fan of post-apoc fiction)
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Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Long term storage of digital records
"A further consideration is the possibility that social upheaval or collapse
will elmininate our successor's access to any technology capable of
translating the data to human-readable form."
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