The Forever Disc.

The article discusses digital preservation, focusing on efforts to develop methods of storing data that will last over very long periods of time, potentially even extending beyond the end of the human race. Topics include the lifespan of data in various formats and the strategy of continuously migrating data to current media and formats as old ones degrade or become obsolete, the work of organizations including the Digital Preservation Coalition, the U.S. Repository Development Center, and the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project, and the potential use of DNA as data storage medium.