 Digital is clearly the winner here from various perspectives but a bit fragile, but if we had to pick something that was especially solid and apocalypse proof, stone tablets would beat out print any day. Newspapers and books decay relatively quickly, are susceptible to fire, susceptible to flooding, etc. You can go to London and read the 2200 year old Rosetta Stone all you like after learning the basics of ancient Greek (like I did), which shouldn&#x27;t be too tough for a native english speaker. Or if you&#x27;re a real go-getter you can learn ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and read the pottery from Abydos which is about 5200 years old. Meanwhile, we just have to accept the losses at the famous burning of the library of Alexandria.<p>Newspapers just decades old are all but dust now. There&#x27;s no lasting power in paper. Stone and clay tablets is where its at. From a more realistic perspective, we live in an age where every tinpot dictator can get nuclear weapons and every powerful nation has enough to end the world, so past ideas of human survival let alone knowledge survival may be a bit naive. There&#x27;s probably nothing that will survive WWIII and there&#x27;s no reason to think WWIII isn&#x27;t going to happen eventually.