Of course, we cannot expect every electronic document to be saved for posterity even with some advanced future technology. Despite the best efforts of archivists since the emergence of written language, only a tiny fraction of the documents produced by each generation has survived for more than a few centuries. However, at least with all earlier, direct reading media from scratchings on stones to ink on paper, later generations have been able to view and often decipher their contents without the aid of complex technologies or special knowledge other than the language in which the documents were written. If we could time travel one hundred years into the future, it would be interesting to observe what people will know about the birth of the cyber age and electronic publishing. Kent State University Permission is granted for non-profit educational uses.
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