Why would there be a need to keep digital storage intact after we are gone? Take an honest look at what you would do if someone else left you 25 GB of pictures, you would never have the time to go through them and most would be meaningless to you anyway. Now multiply this by all the people who may pass before you, then look at the next generation - they will inherit your pictures plus all those left by others to you.
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822
