Even archives have to migrate their data at regular intervals.
The reading/retrieval software is just as ephemeral as the data on 'hard' storage materials--but because of development and planned obsolescence rather than decay.
In many ways data entrusted to electronic storage is far more vulnerable than, say, a medieval manuscript.
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