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Endow an educational institution with funding to teach the data to students, and a trust fund to pay a stipend to any student who can prove they have taught all of the data to all of their children, and do the same for the children's children. The institution will determine invariant replication through rigorous testing of a recitation of the data set.

The human brain has superior data storage capacity and resilience to any of the mentioned media, and a longer functional lifespan. It can also adapt on the fly to changes in technology and language.

This also makes the data proof against illiteracy and technological collapse, assuming a cultural impetus to memorize the data and teach it to others can be maintained.



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