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I actually love imagining ways in which one can build a digital library in its core meaning.
A system reliable enough to survive centuries and maybe millennia, many times redundant and verifiable and self-repairing, allowing exhaustive search.
This fascination is maybe the reason I love systems intended for "piracy". Because frankly paying for media is not such a big deal - I download things not too often and most of the time download things I've downloaded before. I even have a few bought games in Steam which I haven't played.
But I love to feel that there's no company, no organization behind that exchange.
Getting back to libraries - in early 00s people would think of the Web like of a layer upon which such a thing can be built. It turns out that this didn't work, but let's please don't stop with the optimism, and let's please discard the approach which hasn't worked instead of clinging to it.
I'm aboard the ceramics train, I love the laser engraving, QR code method they got going on now.
How big would the "book" storing one Rogue Squadron novel would be with that method?
It can fit about a Terabyte per cm^2, and is laser engraved QR codes versus 0s and 1s.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerabyte-ceramic-storage-poised-to-usher-in-yottabyte-era
Aw. Nice.