How to Ensure Our Digital Legacy Isn’t Lost to the Future

We think the internet records everything, but the problem of ‘bit rot’ means all our emails, photos, and more could disappear in the decades ahead

Forbidding Blocks. Concept: Mike Brill; Drawing: SafdarAbidi; Image courtesy of BOSTI.

How do you write down instructions that could be read and interpreted by people living 10,000 years from now? In 1992, a…