But at the same time, those recent warnings from the internet pioneer Vint Cerf about storage technologies becoming obsolete and the advent of a "digital dark age" highlight a profound fear: precious things are now only a corrupted hard drive or system upgrade away from being lost, for good.
The reasons are complex: ever-increasing paranoia (particularly for women hitching alone), the advent of cheap coach travel in the 1980s and cheap flights in the 1990s all play a part in this downfall.
Before the advent of the Wii Fit, Power Plate or personal trainer, came decades of fitness fads and dancefloor crazes.
Always a medium slow to embrace change, opera now has its own counterculture, 50 years after the advent of the fringe in straight theatre.
It is a loosely structured panoramic account of the advent of jihadism in Mali, an angry, compassionate film, more effective for its initial light touch, before it turns increasingly tragic.
AC lt's hard to imagine now, but the advent of Sunday colour magazines changed the way we looked at the world.
So it seems only natural that we should mark the advent of this bold new era of storytelling with a cheeky game of New Costume Drama Bingo.
Increased supplies of oil from non-Middle East countries, such as Angola, coupled with the advent of alternative green-energy systems, improved conservation, and heightened awareness about the need to curb carbon emissions, are also reducing Saudi leverage.
In recent years the advent of misopostrol, easily bought on the internet and selfadministered, has undoubtedly improved the safety of abortion in the country.
José Viñals, the Washington-based organisation's financial counsellor, said the advent of a multispeed recovery, with some countries stalled or going backwards while others accelerate, had increased tensions in global financial markets.
We agree completely that the advent of affordable battery storage will change the game for electricity networks – chapter four of our report is all about that.
