When picking the archival medium, you have to also optimize for how people will read it in the future, yes.
No point in having a disc survive 300 years if no one has working blu-ray readers at that point. You would have been better off with microscopic text etched into metal, or plain old paper. Or maybe some variation in between like metal sheets with stamped out QR-codes that do light compression reversible by humans manually into english and numbers.
No point in having a disc survive 300 years if no one has working blu-ray readers at that point. You would have been better off with microscopic text etched into metal, or plain old paper. Or maybe some variation in between like metal sheets with stamped out QR-codes that do light compression reversible by humans manually into english and numbers.