No problem -- I&#x27;m really passionate about this topic!<p>.gov stuff. Every state in the union has social services systems that were stood up in the 60s and 70s, and have or are being transitioned over time from whatever mainframe they were in to modern stuff.<p>Usually the long term stuff is retained. These folks deal with situations like disabled children who become wards of the state. Their records need to exist well until those children are in their 40s.<p>Thats just one example -- Public works projects are built with 50+ year lifespans, and many of those records are expected to exist for at least that long.<p>There&#x27;s also a whole historical responsibility thing that I think will become more important. You can develop a deep understanding of how a governor or Mayor made certain decisions going back to the American revolution (my county has records of the legislative body from the Dutch colonial period). Digitalization has erased a lot of that -- in many cases we cannot read data from the 1980s.<p>I think issues like this are already starting to appear on a small&#x2F;personal scale -- when my grandfather died in 1980s, all of his business records, personal records, pictures, etc were on paper somewhere in his home. You could sift through and keep important things. What do you do when the only protection your data in Dropbox&#x2F;et al is one missed credit card transaction away from oblivion?