Wired magazine writes about a new Library of Congress facility for preserving media:
The building's solid underground structure, complete with vaults, converts easily to media storage, said Gregory Lukow, chief of the motion picture, broadcasting and recorded sound division of the Library of Congress.
But this is just the old-fashioned approach to these things. The hardened, centralized, protect-it-in-a-mountain method is so 20th century. Today it's a distributed world. Want to preserve a copy of something? Don't hide ONE copy in a central place, scatter LOTS of copies all over the place.
The chances that every one of 100 copies would be destroyed -- especially when you can make more copies before the last one is gone -- is extremely low. And it's much less expensive than these steel blast door places.
And you can make it even more redundant by putting data centers in orbit, on the ISS, on the moon, on Mars!
The way to deal with a distributed problem is a with a distributed solution.
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