Hacking the planet with Notcurses

I have backups from my phones since 2010 to about 2014. At that time I stopped caring about losing my phone, since all the data was in the cloud anyway and I don't particularly care about losing a handful of average-quality photos. Meanwhile, my important data (financial docs, personal writings, etc) is now backed up on multiple NASes.

Moreover, it's not like books are somehow immune to destruction. A recent fire in the Russian Library ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/31/fire-russia... ) destroyed many books and documents that existed only as a single copy.

Digitalization would make this much less likely. And the amount of data to store most of the world's historical books is pretty much trivial by today's standards. Suppose that you want to store 130 million books (the estimated total amount), and each book is scanned in b&w without any OCR, taking around 10 megabytes. That's around 1.3PB in total - less than the capacity of an average enterprise NAS. OCRing texts would also bring that down by an order of magnitude, into the realms accessible to home users (20Tb hard drives are already here).

It's also unlikely that you'd want to store ALL of the literature, so subsets of it (like pre 20-th century English-language books) would be small enough to fit on a single SD card.