[Skybird]

An according projects stores grains of all sorts in a bunker in either Greenland or the Swiss Alps, I do not recall anymore where it was. So that agriculture could be restarted in case of Idonotimaginewhat.

Regarding knowledge storage, just do not trust in contemporary technology as a data medium. We already lose access to data media and storage codes due to the technological decoders being lost. What is much better is paper and ink of good quality. And that must not necessarily be the latest generation of paper and ink, but possibly could be something of age. Important is the climate of the storage location, light conditions, geological stability, and so on. If done well, paper can survive not for centuries but millenia. Trust in your USB stick for as long? That super-HD? A DVD?

The digital technology for me is more a tool for short-termed pragmatism, to sort and access information in a superior way while accessing it. But the digital technology so far imo misses promising outlooks for survivable longterm storage of data. It should not be trusted. The carrier media are too sensible and vulnerable, the technology to access them gets too easily lost, and the decoding keys (programming languages for example) constantly change and increase in number and variety as well. Some scientist examining prospects of the the future therefore claim that a purely digital culture would literally delete itself.

For the ever increasing diversity of digital access methods, and for the ever increasing supernational bureaucracy regulating our lives as well, I have only one metaphor on my mind: the building of the tower ofBabel.

The "unbreakable barrels" with toxic radioactive waste stored in German salt mines are already leaking, btw. And who said that in one thousand years people will still be able to read the warnings in those letters and words that were printed on them? Languages change. And will the paint still be on the corroding barrels? - This only to illustrate the problem from a different angle.