Well, I don't believe in weightless information.* Unfortunately, I'm less of an idealist than I'd like to be. I don't believe things can be timeless; I don't think there's "an outside", not even a multiverse.. nor an 11th dimentional M-Brane... even though I really like M-Brane... parallel dimensions, etc. But I do know what we got here is what we got. There might be MORE.. and there might NOT be more.* I honestly don't know. A hard copy is in the near future at some point.* While I don't worry about the zombie apocolypse, nor do believe in the singularity of computing either... [Moore's law was wrong - a nice idea but wrong]....still, being somewhere inbetween, I like to have backups. Paper is the easiest/cheaper form of permanent storage.* It's not perfect either; STONE is close to perfect but I have to be reasonable. At the moment, I've got a LOT of what I've written across the Internet on [1]http://icopiedyou.com - I made it indexed by Google.* So Google's cache has a copy.* [free cloud] I have some of it on Internet Archive (Wayback machine) - that's a work-in-progress. Eventually I hope to have copies of it in other spots around the 'net to be picked up by THEIR backup systems. But more importantly than that, I have several copies scattered locally.* My Laptop, and an external hard drive. I also have a cheap black and white laser printer.* I plan to waste a whole toner cartridge on it; 1000 pages I think. Can I fit it all in 1000 pages?* I dunno.* I can read easily down to 7 pt arial narrow* (bad vision but my glasses work), and if I find a font that's better at smaller levels, I can go even smaller. I can use font kerning to squeeze them together, and of course very little space between lines - just a few toner dots or so. So yeah, I have plans :) Even then, it's just one offline copy of everything. But even with ALL THAT, I don't worry too much.* If it's all gone, it's all gone and so be it. Because to me, information not being lost means information gets transformed into other ways.* I believe THAT'S how it achieves a form of forever.* It gets categorized, summarized, compressed. Its not ideal of course; it'd be nice to be able to find out what a Roman Soldier was thinking in 235 AD on a Tuesday while standing there doing nothing in particular. So far, we can't. But we can imagine.* Imagination is information.* Is it correct information?* Who knows.* But it's information.* Imagination is as close as we can get to things we can't directly measure. References Visible links 1. http://icopiedyou.com/