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Q: "How can anyone trust digital records as being immortal?"

A: read this, to understand and practice the difference between digital support, format and interface:

https://mfioretti.com/how-file-formats-can-be-used-favor-or-hamper-innovation-active-citizenship-and-really-free-markets/

When you do that, paper and stone are revealed as much more ephemeral than bits.

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So much is in .docx, .ppt, .esv, .xls. Not ready for a post-Microsoft world.

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the answer to a post-Microsoft world has been available for almost twenty years now. Check out the slides I just linked in my other comment.

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