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On the other hand, we are by accident storing vastly more communication than we use to. Many letters I would not have saved, and conversations that would never have even have been recorded are now by default. All it takes is someone finding a copy of them 100 (or 1000) years from now.

Most copies, like most old books and most letters, will be destroyed. But some copies of some peoples information will probably live on. Some hard drives and flash memory will be miraculously preserved or whatever for future generations automated electron scanning microscopes to decode.



I have some letters my grandfather wrote to his mother when he was a young man:

http://www.walterbright.com/trip/chas.html

But the letters my grandmother wrote to him are totally lost.




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