The Book Storage Problem

Storing data for the future is getting more difficult, not less. To start, what form do you store books in? “We’re talking of moving past gigabytes of information into terrabytes [a thousand gigabytes], into petabytes [a thousand terrabytes], and into exobytes [a thousand petabytes]. We need to install now an architecture into which you will be able to plug in whatever is the storage system of the day, in the future.”