Books
Video can be faked. Pictures can be changed. In this slithery world of everything moving underfoot, I'd like to make the case for writing as memory, specifically writing that you get in the form of paper books, as the most stable long-term storage for civilization.
Government websites are being erased and online data is vanishing. Amazon can disappear ebooks from your Kindle and prevent you from reading them on any other device.
But take a look at your bookshelf. Those books are still there. Maybe getting a little dusty. But otherwise unchanged.
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