As the article says, and as I can personally attest, CD's aren't all they're cracked up to be re: permanent storage. I use them in my work and they go bad relatively often.
All this talk about storage media. What happens if something were to happen, like a large EMP pulse from a nuke detonated at high altitude. Anything with integrated circuits that isn't specifically hardened would be fried. We'd have all this digital media stored with no way to access it.
That's why I still keep some vinyl albums on hand! :) After Armageddon, you'll find me listening to my old Artie Shaw albums...
GW