Digital BW, The Print

I suspect that in too many years from now, very few people will store / 
backup their own data except for short term use.
I forsee this storage being universally undertaken by third party 
corporations as, I believe, is beginning to happen already. The difference 
is that this would be regarded as the commonplace and commonsense way to 
look after important data in the same way that money is now mostly entrusted 
to banks and not generally kept in large sums at home. These corporations 
would offer guarantees of technological updates to the current best practice 
and would be as readily accessible to individual downloading as using online 
personal banking is now. Furthermore, these 'assets' would be then as easy 
to pass on to successive generations as leaving one's other assets to them 
now is via a will. And the major technological expertise only needs to 
reside with the storage banks, not the eventual recipient/ user.
There would, of course, be a charge for this service. But then individually 
updating and extending one's own storage bank is also expensive. In fact , 
with competition and the advantages of scale, it may even turn out to be 
cheaper - and probably safer.
Just another thought.
Len