Let your imagination soar! Do you believe it is possible that the post you have just saved on your website...
Why not? Modern technology enabled mankind to make an immeasurable amount of data available on the internet. What happens to all this information? Does anyone ever housekeep this vast and ever-growing network of interconnected computer networks? Of course, every server has its lifespan and needs to be replaced at some point, but many servers have backup tapes and any information accessible on the worldwide web can be multiplied. By the time the original 'copy' is deleted, there will have been hundreds of replicas; therefore it is quite imaginable that your blog will survive the century.
Our modern history is being recorded almost in real-time on the internet. In a hundred years' time this immense quantity of data will be the source of historical research. We can also anticipate that the offsprings of our great grandchildren will show interest in ancient blog archives. Think twice before pressing the 'publish' button to avoid misinforming future generations.
Will they understand why so many people spent precious hours of their time writing blogs? Let's hope the answer is yes and be self-assured enough to say they will find valuable content and have a good time reading it in 2109.
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I'm afraid your optimism would suffer a severe disappointment if you could read the report I had in my hands a couple of months ago: almost every man-made material has a life-expectancy below the 10.000 years limit. There's one big exception: ceramics, be it floor tiles, cups and dishes, toilets, etc (pretty much what we have found from ancient civilizations). When talking about supports for holding information, there's no big results besides paper.
But assuming your challenge, and for a not-so-distant future of 100 years, I suppose that there could be an interest in reading some of the "old stuff" left by ourselves.
Though I fear the cultural background would be so much different that they would experience great difficulties to understand what made us tick! :D
Yes I believe our blogs will survive till the end of the world as we know it. Servers will come and go but our blog will be transfered from one server to another and will continue to do so until computers became obsolete.
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