Berkeley thought that anything exists only because God is perceiving it, and if God stops perceiving it, that thing disappears.
That sounds remarkably perceptive, for some reasonable definition of God. In quantum mechanics, or, rather, the classical measurements of it, we can only observe what’s entangled with us. If somehow a state got untangled, we’d stop perceiving it. If you subscribe to the MWI, you are living with multiple copies of yourself which, for you, don’t even exist because you can never perceive them, or even infer much about them. (There is a wrinkle there, gravity doesn’t fit into the picture, but then it doesn’t fit into any quantum picture.)
As for the appropriate media, basic PDF and paper copies are indeed the safest bets. Also, pure HTML5 might survive, even if JS goes out of fashion. Also, hosting is always an issue. Then again, most published works, especially theses, do not deserve a ten-year lifespan, though yours might be different.
That sounds remarkably perceptive, for some reasonable definition of God. In quantum mechanics, or, rather, the classical measurements of it, we can only observe what’s entangled with us. If somehow a state got untangled, we’d stop perceiving it. If you subscribe to the MWI, you are living with multiple copies of yourself which, for you, don’t even exist because you can never perceive them, or even infer much about them. (There is a wrinkle there, gravity doesn’t fit into the picture, but then it doesn’t fit into any quantum picture.)
As for the appropriate media, basic PDF and paper copies are indeed the safest bets. Also, pure HTML5 might survive, even if JS goes out of fashion. Also, hosting is always an issue. Then again, most published works, especially theses, do not deserve a ten-year lifespan, though yours might be different.
1) That’s probably true of most theses individually. (Variation between fields?)
2a) Perhaps there is value in a collection?
2b) If it’s cited it should stick around.