What happens when the formats we use to preserve our thoughts become more fragile than the thoughts themselves? In this fascinating exploration of digital preservation, we trace the journey from universal paper to proprietary software formats, and ask what we're really trading away in the name of convenience.Starting with a personal story about abandoning handwriting for keyboards, we explore the format wars of the 2000s when sending a simple document became a compatibility nightmare. From OpenOffice to Microsoft Word to the rise of plain text as the ultimate survivor format, we examine how choosing sophisticated tools might be making our content less likely to survive.Using examples spanning from ancient Gilgamesh texts to modern PSD files, we confront an uncomfortable truth: we're creating more content than ever before, but it might also be the least durable content in human history. While cave paintings from 30,000 years ago remain visible, will our tweets and blog posts be readable in even 50 years?A thought-provoking look at what future digital archaeologists will find when they excavate our era—and why the day Bic sells its last pen might mark more than just the end of analog writing."When a format dies, so does its content. If we still have books from centuries or millennia ago, it's because they weren't written in proprietary formats.""We're creating more content than ever before in human history, but we might also be creating the least durable content in human history.""You won't find yourself in an old attic looking through books left by your ancestors. Instead you'll find an iPad with a dead battery and no way to charge it because Lightning cables haven't been manufactured in decades."

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