This week, TED Radio Hour explores one of humanity's most fundamental challenges: how to ensure that knowledge survives beyond our own lifetimes. From ancient libraries to digital archives, the episode examines the methods we've devised to preserve information—and the obstacles that threaten to erase it.
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