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Data has never been more permanent than it is now, but we're also generating much more data than ever.


What are you talking about? Stone, paper, and magnetic tape are more permanent than any hard drive or optical storage medium today.


Most things never made it to stone, paper and magnetic tape. We're recording more data now than ever before because it's so cheap to do so. Sure we lose some, but more information will be created and stored today than existed in the entire world not that long ago.




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