Dangers of everything being on the cloud

The cloud has become very convenient. We keep everything there these days. We like the ability to get to our music and documents and movies from any computer terminal or cell phone or tablet that we have at the time. If we keep all that information on one computer at home it would be difficult to get when we needed it, where we needed it. 

Almost all music, books and movies can be found on the Internet. We can find just about anything we want these days if we search hard enough. We can find movies and books and music and PDFs about any subject that we want to learn about. Many places it's perfectly legal to download either for free or we might have to spend a little money to get them. If we were not the most honest people we could search and download these items for free without paying for them. Many people do but it's not necessarily the right thing to do.

What happens if the Internet dies. My question is what happens if something causes the Internet to disappear. I know it's very unlikely because the Internet is based upon millions of computers linked together but there are couple of scenarios I think could happen, could cause a massive breakdown of the World Wide Web.

There are plenty of people and organizations who have the ability to create a Super Internet virus, to design a piece of software that would go in and dismantle every machine connected to the Internet. There are other groups and organizations who are working their hardest to keep this from happening. What if one day someone gets this virus moving and the Internet takes itself apart from the inside out.

A massive EMP is unlikely to wipe out the electronics of the entire world. There are many people who have created back ups and protection to keep their machines from being affected by EMPs. There is one EMP that could destroy all the technology we know today. I think it will come from a solar flare, a solar storm that can radiate and cause huge damage to the way we live today. If we do have something of this magnitude happen, I think we lose the majority of humanity, life being extinguished from the radiation. The loss of all the information on the Internet may be the least of our worries.

if we lost the Internet completely, I think the event would rival the loss we had from the fires in the library of Alexandria. The Library of Alexandria was a place created for learning, a center for thinkers and artists in the Greek and Roman times. Over the course of 300 or 400 years, the information there grew to huge proportions. Several different times it was partially destroyed and in at one point, stories say it was almost completely destroyed. It was considered the greatest loss of human thought and information collected up to that point.

I think something like this could happen to us since were putting everything in digital format. I wander if something will eventually happen that will destroy all the digital information or cause a massive loss of the bits and bytes that are only kept in one or two places. Is it something we will lose and never get back?

I wonder, How can we back up the Internet? The biggest way would be to have multiple locations for the same information. If one place gets destroyed, you have the back ups in other places. I think it would be a good idea to keep books in a printed format. Maybe in a hundred years someone will find it and be able to read it.