Digital BW, The Print

<<Digital storage is cheap and, if appropriate 
precautions are followed, much
more secure than the storage of an asset such as
film.>>

Yes. Ansel Adams, in his book "forty Images" tells of
losing quite a number of his original negs in a fire
in his lab in Yosemite.  In this same book he
anticipates digital imaging and I'm sure he would be a
strong advocate......