[sonofgod]

There's some projects. Like arctic archival of github repos: https://archiveprogram.github.com/

Granted, this is only a snapshot, and preservation is a big problem. And you can't easily preserve gigabytes of data in dead tree format...

Generally the best approach is "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe" but moves to streaming media and game rental services worry me.

There also needs to be a recognition that what we see is often a very small fraction of what existed... most things won't survive, unless successive generations of people continuously care sufficiently about them. Or they're ubiquitous that we'll find at least one...

[kevin_thibedeau]

Lots of copies on flash chips are all going to be gone in 100 years.

[WalterBright]

I don't trust flash chips at all.

My older media is all pretty much unreadable for one reason or another. My solution is to buy new drives every year and copy everything forward. Fortunately, the capacity keeps rising so that works out rather well.