Have you ever noticed (in general) how unlike nearly anything else when it comes to squirreling away back ups of digital information, the concept of entropy is almost completely ignored while simultaneously being almost obsessively worried about.

For example look at your statement about backups and never having enough and compare that to say, the days when people would clip articles out of the paper and put them in a family volume or something. They wouldn't make 5 copies in case something happened to the other 4 simultaneously.

At the same time, people have a kind of trust in digital information storage that in some "beneath the surface" visceral way tends to suggest its infallibility. Back to screaming boomers, you can watch their brain contort trying to understand how things can "just disappear" from digital storage. When you make the newspaper clipping analogy its almost as if their brain is incapable of accepting the challenges and shortcomings inherent to record keeping in general. Its like the cant accept its application to digital concepts. And not to pick on boomers but I always found that the young got it (my stuffs gone cuz my card failed) and those older than boomers were like "oh well stuff gets gone all the time." But that age in between... nope, its your fault/your just being lazy.