I'm not holding my breath, given the recent fate of documents stored on Google groups --- not to mention the blink-and-you-missed-it Google Waves, the Nexus-1, and similar recent experiences involving less prestigious outfits. It strikes me that ArXiV offers currently one's best chance of electronic immortality, albeit in a very limited format (and with a nontrivially high bar, particularly if you happen to be a cosmologist). None of these options is very promising over a span of more than a century --- look at how many software, and particularly hardware formats have already decayed into unreadability. And on a related note, there's the legal and technological obstacles obstructing access in perpetuity to proprietary material --- we must just hope that the graverobbers of the future will always prove more ingenious than the gravediggers of the present. Fred Lunnon On 12/19/10, N. J. A. Sloane <njas@research.att.com> wrote:

Does anyone know how long GoogleDocs will store your document for?

Is this, finally, a solution to my Eternal Home Page suggestion (see http://www2.research.att.com/~njas/doc/eternal.html) ?

Neil

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