Comment by seti0Cha

This whole thing strikes me as silly. Problems accessing services while alone in a boat in the middle of the sea is not anything like the general problem of preserving information and technology. We don't need to make knowledge individually accessible and maintainable because humans generally don't try to do that by themselves. And humans are actually really good at preserving the knowledge they care about. Kids in school read a poem first written down 2500 years ago about an event that occurred 500 years before that. The dead sea scrolls failed to overturn the world of biblical scholarship because it turned out the later copies of the texts were actually quite accurate. The fact that our devices don't just work without a supply chain and a steady source of power, or that there are 20 year old games almost nobody cares about which we can no longer play just doesn't signify that much. Nor does the fact that the BBC couldn't figure out how to preserve some chunk of data for 10 years.