A very good point, about the need for “backups”. But will the funding be available, given politicians’ short-termist approach to everything and their focus only on votes and power? In a rational world, preserving and protecting human and planetary knowledge would be a high priority, but even those who run museums (whose job this preservation and protection actually is) aren’t alive to the need for, or prepared to prioritise “backups”. When they can’t even get funds for a decent fire protection system, what hope is there?
I am reminded of:
Schofield’s Second Law of Computing states that data doesn’t really exist unless you have at least two copies of it.
I rather think that museum “data” is similar.
