The loss of Alexandria is a textbook case of how we keep repeating the same folly, you know? We’re now trading clay tablets for cloud servers, but the principle is the same—people think they’ll never lose it. And just like those bronze tablets that fell into the sea, data gets buried in servers that may one day fail. 1 The real lesson? The past didn’t teach us to guard our scrolls; it taught us to guard the memory of those scrolls. 2 So maybe we should treat the cloud like the sands of the Sahara—fragile, shifting, and not to be trusted as a permanent record.