Further cultivations and releases will follow, carefully calculated to assure that the archive is widespread enough to survive for the specified period of time. Within approximately fourteen years, the archival roaches will inexorably become so endemic as to become an ubiquitous and permanent feature of the island. In order to facilitate decoding, the archive will not make use of data compression or encryption technologies. It is the best technological solution to meet the demands of the constraints presented. The time capsule is to be placed in Manhattan, yet last for 1000 years.
Manhattan is one of the least desirable locations on Earth for archival storage.
It is a likely target for terrorist or military attack during the specified period of time. Furthermore, Manhattan might very well be subject to political pressures that would cause future residents to make unplanned use of its spaces and other resources. For instance, travel might become restricted and parklands on Manhattan might be needed to produce food. New forms of transportation, such as spaceports, might become available that require large amounts of space and are demanded in population centers rather than at the peripheries, where contemporary airports are found. New space might be required to house artificial phases of human life, such as cryogenically preserved bodies or disembodied brains.