Writing in stone, sounds difficult, arduous, tedious and all that, but I'm ever reminded,, every time I save to a Flash Drive that technically I AM writing in stone...Silicon, in the form of memory chips. My keyboard is my hammer and my PC is my chisel.
In view of the fact that my Flash Drives won't last forever, they will probably outlast me.
And, that's good enough for me.
A few years ago, I think it was Sony that was boasting that heir CD's would last for 30 years.
That did sound impressive, since they would outlive me by decades. But today, I rarely burn anything to CD/DVD's. Even though I still have hundreds of them, sitting on the shelf, and the full retail version of NERO Burning Rom, software, ssfely tucked away.
New PC's today, don't even come with CD drives any more.
Back in The Day, I used to copy my own Utilities CD and send the copies to friends all around the world. Now, I can't send them to Canada any more, due to Canadian mail laws.
and Google won't allow the mailing of any Executable file.
The last CD I mailed to a friend in Canada never made it past the border.
Hopefully someday technology will provide a better way of sharing data over borders.
TM
