This is awesome. But it makes me sad to think that our current DIGITAL artifacts might not survive even 20 years, unless explicitly archived. I'm pretty sure a harddrive or SSD thrown on a landfill won't be able to be resurrected in 2000 years even with alien tech, but maybe? Would be cool if someone studied this :)
But the main problem is probably not reading thrown out drives - it's that stuff is just too transient nowadays. People put something up on the net and decides to withdraw it next year. archive.org can't store the walled gardens, and even if a social network for example wants to archive stuff they might not be allowed to for legal issues (not that it has prevented them before, but anyway...)
But the main problem is probably not reading thrown out drives - it's that stuff is just too transient nowadays. People put something up on the net and decides to withdraw it next year. archive.org can't store the walled gardens, and even if a social network for example wants to archive stuff they might not be allowed to for legal issues (not that it has prevented them before, but anyway...)