It's Begun.....

I while back I mentioned a sci-fi book that I was reading and how it "clicked" with me about, well civilizations. In it a "civie" was asking a Zenoarcheologist how come all the evidence beyond purely visual medium of a civilization all comes before or ends as the culture becomes hi-tech. He answered that storage medium is Fragile. It doesn't take long after a culture fails that those storage mediums degrade and all is lost forever. Only the materials made before electronic storage survive for future generations...
So 'Newsweek' goes totally e by the end of the yr.
As someone who remembers how the early e-volk dealt with the last hurricane when the grid had been down too long and their devices could no longer be recharged, I shudder for the next. Since the last, we no longer have a landline. We were one of the few last time in our circle of friends and family and were the ONLY ones who could contact those out of the area. Now, we'll be just as cut off as everyone else. And that's just for a local disaster, not what could come about from decades of lousy Energy and Infrastructure policies...
Sadly, future alien archeologists may only have copies of 'Twilight' to judge our civilization's culture on.
Cheers,
Pat