The difference being that I don't believe the digital archives of today will survive the test of time, as well as the Herodotus manuscripts.
Assuming we don't kill ourselves out of the planet, good luck to whoever will be digging hard drives 3000 years from now, and trying to understand what is stored in them, assuming the magnetic field is still readable.
Assuming we don't kill ourselves out of the planet, good luck to whoever will be digging hard drives 3000 years from now, and trying to understand what is stored in them, assuming the magnetic field is still readable.