WalMart's trove of decade-old, massive, low-capacity hard-drives

Good point and why I introduced the concept that the Clock of the Long Now is using to actually include learning materials with the encoded information.
Sure, you have to assume a level of intelligence and determinedness and I guess just hope for the blind luck that whatever post-apocalyptic civilisation finds your life insurance records, actually cares about honouring such commitments from their distant and storied ancestors.
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