system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How likely is it that digital data we have right now (of music, movies, pictures, etc) are preserved and recoverable thousands of years into the future?
gpt
Such a question is difficult if not impossible to answer. There are too many variables; what country are you talking about for example, as a war or conflict could destroy data storage infrastructure.  Which company because of how likely they would be to preserve data through acquisition or financial ruin. What is the nature of the data; financial data is virtually assured of destruction within the next few decades simply for legal reasons. Ultimately the web of supposition becomes too thick for any level of reasonable conclusions to be drawn.