archives not

so in my society and tech class we were discussing topics concerning information archives...
the main concern is that technologies are developing so quickly that equipments are becoming obsolete faster than ever. From a long term point of view, this can be pretty scary since information kept on cchanging and old equipments are lost after merely two decades... :(
where photo papers can keep an image for 200 years, if picture are stored on a cd, the disk will start degrading (under favorable condition) after 25 years! :(
the idea is pretty shocking...makes me think about how miniscule we human really are...and how we're truly like mists...appear and then vanish just like that...and will anyone remember us? probably not...not by the way we're doing things now....in 1000 years, the new civilization, if they still exist, will have more information on the people 1000 years before us with the writings on stones than us...with our...FABULOUS digital technologies....begs the question....are we progressing? or regressing?

....all this thoughts derived not only from that lecture...but...oh....how i learn to love and hate first-hand experience....on one hand, it makes us understand and really appreciate....on the other...it hurts :(
what am i talking about? well...i lost a whole bunch of emails...yes...hotmail inactivated my acount (ritatsai@hotmail.com) cuz i forgot to sign on for a month and they deleted every single email that was in it... :( not their fault...i don't use that account anymore...but that was my first email account....and even though now it just receives junk mail, it contained in the folders, many many many many many of my memories...*sad* ...yes...in the universe that's ever so great, i'm sitting here pouting about my lost emails...yes...i'm whinning about something so finite in an inifinite existence...something so insignificant when taking into picture the history of time.
*sigh*.....my emails....*whimpers*