Google on hard drive failures

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On 2/23/07, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
>
> At 02:04 PM 2/23/2007, William Donzelli wrote:
> >>Good answer :) Certainly not permanent. Could we (as a species)
> theoretically
> >>make something that will last for a fairly significant (from a human
> POV)
> >>length of time, such as a few hundred years?
> >
> >Art.
>
> So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data is to use
> steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
> want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
> redundant fashion all around the world.
>
> Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
>
> I'll stop now.
>
> - John
>
>
Pictures do fade after a while you know so those aren't perfect means of
storage either (rats!) ;-) :-p