Playback Drift — Or why a stone tablet is better than a hard drive

Is there a better all-around writer than James Fallows?

If so, give me her or his name, would you?

In the current (September) issue of The Atlantic, Fallows explains why it is that when it comes to keeping information around for centuries, millennia, that sort of deep time, digital simply can't hold a candle to analog.

Here's a link to his article.