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It's actually insane what technology we have in this era
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It's truly astounding how accessible art and knowledge has become, you can feasibly fit an entire library worth of books onto a chip the size of a fingernail
Well, to add a bit, if you are thinking about microSD cards, the chip is nowhere close to the size of a fingernail.
We package it into a card the size of a fingernail so it's big enough to use without tools. The card is mostly empty space.
I think it is astounding too. On the other hand, imagine how much history will be lost if we had another Carrington Event. There are ways to preserve huge amounts digital media that would survive such a thing, but I don't think there's been any serious attempts to preserve important stuff that's only on the internet.
So it does astound me, but it also worries me.
Solar flares don’t erase HDDs. EMP could ruin the control circuitry but not the HDD disk itself. If someone could rebuild the controller all the data on the disk would be recoverable. Solar flares are not like nuclear bomb EMP and most electronics would be fine in a Carrington event. The electric grid, with its long wires, would have a hell of a time.