The Cost of Digital Storage

A fascinating article here brings up the valid question of whether it's really such a good idea to head down the road of digital storage when the long-term lifecycle costs for maintaining that information is looking to be very very large. Questionable, at best. And as usual, some of the comments tagged on the end brought up some very interesting points about distributed storage via the general public. Idea being that worthwhile information will be maintained by individuals and entities that will continuously modify and maintain it across the various formats and years that come down the pike. Of course, this also means that the information control is no longer in the hands of former power structures but rather in the hands of individuals and society. Good or Bad? who knows. Such things are beyond our power to really figure out. Digital does many good things for us in terms of distribution, but as the saying goes: easy come, easy go...