Our Perishable forms of ... A Thousand years from now what will have survived to till that future generation of our hopes, dreams, fears, loves, hates, desires?What are the chances that our fragile digital lives will still be machine readable, even a hundred years from now?Great works of art and literature from our own history survive now because they were preserved by the wise in houses of learning. They remain available to us because they rely upon nothing aside from their own physical form to be viewable.Even in our own life time we can see the loss associated with our fragile media and fleeting technology. For example, early seminal works in cinematography hav