With the DVD industry telling me that highest quality DVD+Rs kept under perfect conditions have an archival life of only 30-100 years (and my cars never get close to the reported MPG), I can't imagine that future generations will worry much about them.
Although they still may be looking at Kodachrome I shot in the 1970s.
Wait. If the same report tells me the unrecorded shelf life is 5-10 years, how is the archival life of a recorded copy supposed to be 30-100 years?
Just recopy to the new thingy every 20 years. Even if the copies were good would you have a DVD 100 years from now?
All those ‘letter’ things are the same to me. High tech and I are not compatible.
So, the future archaeologists will think we were wiped out in the mid 90’s? I hadn't thought of that possibility until now.
It will seem like a few mutant zombies survived for a few decades, making strange discs, until they too finally died out.
How cool!