This research paper discusses the increasing reliance of contemporary society on digital documentation and the dangers of a completely server-dependent record system. Although digital documents enhance speed, ease of access, storage capability and communication, overreliance on cloud platforms, servers, databases and digital devices can pose severe risks to long-term knowledge preservation. Digital records require electricity, access to the internet, compatibility of software, password, cybersecurity, and continuity of the institutions. In the event of breakdown of these systems through cyberattacks, server crash, obsolescence of file format, natural calamities, or a technological glitch, important legal, educational, medical, governmental, and historical documents may be inaccessible or lost. The paper contends that paper-based records ought not to be entirely eradicated in society. Digital systems can collaborate with paper records, offline backups, sustainable file formats, and hard copy archives, to safeguard human memory, legal evidence, and cultural continuity. The proposed study recommends a hybrid documentation model that integrates digital documentation of information due to speed and accessibility with paper records and offline backup to ensure resilience and long-term preservation.
Faith Greene (Sun,) studied this question.