http://www.michikono.com/2006/12/26/social-networks-usher-in-a-new-era-of-mankind/ Stuff only Michi cares to read Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.michikono.com/2006/12/26/social-networks-usher-in-a-new-era-of-mankind/#comment-239 MichiKono.com » Catastrophes Nix the Net Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:23:02 +0000 http://michikono.com/blog/2006/12/26/social-networks-usher-in-a-new-era-of-mankind/#comment-239 [...] While I was writing my post about the permanent nature of the Internet, secretly in the back of my mind, I knew that there were things that could happen that would destroy those sacred “permanent” foot prints. You see, while the Internet usually has many copies of a given piece of data, a large majority of it sits on servers under half a dozen US companies (Google). When these companies go under, with them, so will our data. And I’m fairly positive that no company can last forever. Forever is a very long time. [...] [...] While I was writing my post about the permanent nature of the Internet, secretly in the back of my mind, I knew that there were things that could happen that would destroy those sacred “permanent” foot prints. You see, while the Internet usually has many copies of a given piece of data, a large majority of it sits on servers under half a dozen US companies (Google). When these companies go under, with them, so will our data. And I’m fairly positive that no company can last forever. Forever is a very long time. [...]

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