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 title = "Post electronics archive"
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+Short url - https://rebrand.ly/dg-archive
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 ## Intro
 **How to best preserve our knowledge (physical and spiritual) and texts?**
 
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 - The last classical antique library in Constantinople burnt down in the 5th century and 120000 codices with it. The first medieval library of the 6th century contained about 100 books.
 - Burnt libraries of nAlandA, Alexandria.
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+## Post-industrial age focus
+The post-oil, post-industrial-age world will arrive (details [TM](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m)), with much unrest, by 2160 (or 2260 if ice-methane extraction works out). Lack of fertilizers will lead to famine and a big drop in population. Raw materials like plastics, copper, and lithium too will be rarer. Machines - let alone computers - will be scarce. So, electronic data will be ephemeral.+++(5)+++
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+(Even while the industrial age is going strong, 38% of web-pages from 2013 was not accessible anymore in 2024. [PR](pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/))
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+**How then to best preserve our knowledge (physical and spiritual) and texts?**