Well if youre talking about maintaining information as in specifically reference and technical information. Like as in a sort of encyclopedic summation of the state of the best understanding we have of certain things. Then OK.
But in the scheme of preserving media, a deep swath of the detail on any given topic, raw data, Etc. Preserving that requires an actual archival approach to preservation. It’s gotta get moved to that new better storage format. And a lot of that stuff is already gone. Sure something durable like an Atari cartridge, you could technically make something to read it. If all the Atari’s were gone. But things like floppies, tape, even hard-drives and old school platter storage often become unreadable pretty fast.
I mean there are TV shows, sometimes major ones. That are just lost. Not because no-one attempted to save them. But because they were only stored on tape. And those tapes have just become blank over time. It’s not as if everything we know and all of our culture will simply evaporate over time. But it’s not exactly going to be as clear and easy to get at in the far future as people often assume. You won’t neccisarily be able to just pull up that information and read it easily.
