[bad_alloc]

Just to be a smartass: I guess it will last for a significant timespan, but not actually "forever" unless Hitachi also finds out how to reverse entropy or how to leave this universe. If they don't a lot of stuff might get their data, like proton-decay, the upcoming black hole era or the fact that everything is liquid on very large timescales. Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Futu... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

[StavrosK]

It's for small values of "forever".

[zem]

The stars and Galaxies died and snuffed out, and space grew black after ten trillion years of running down.

One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain.

Man's last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero.

Man said, "AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?"

AC said, "Hang on, I have the answer inscribed on a Hitachi glass tablet somewhere."

-- Isaac Asimov, "The Last Tablet"

[vectorbunny]

Nothing last forever... except hyperbole.