Will Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia Live Forever?

Hold on a second. It appears that mankind has silently agreed on something monumental: certain digital platforms—Google, Facebook, Wikipedia—must never die.

Think about it. When you choose between hosting a blog on your own purchased domain versus publishing on Google’s Blogger platform, the choice isn’t just technical or aesthetic. It’s existential.

A personal domain is vulnerable. If the owner dies or fails to renew it, the site can vanish. But a blog hosted on Google? That might survive as long as Google itself does—especially if Google becomes a kind of digital public utility, a permanent fixture of civilization.

I believe that we, collectively, have decided that Google should live forever. And not just Google—Facebook, Wikipedia, and perhaps a few other giants.

These platforms have become the digital equivalent of ancient scrolls and grand libraries. If Facebook went extinct, how many memories, friendships, and life records would be lost? If Wikipedia vanished, what would happen to the greatest crowdsourced repository of human knowledge?

The very idea feels apocalyptic. And that’s the point.

We’ve already passed a litmus test—the same test that preserved handwritten scrolls for centuries, that gave rise to the world’s great libraries. The test is this: what we consistently value, we strive to preserve.

As strange as it sounds, Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia might now be part of humanity’s legacy infrastructure. Cultural DNA. The long scrolls of the digital age.

Sure, no system is technically immortal. Companies can fail. Governments can regulate. Technologies evolve. But when something becomes too deeply embedded in how we store our memories, search our truths, and connect across borders—then it stops being just a service. It becomes a societal commitment.

And that’s why I believe:

• Google will live forever.
• Facebook will live forever.
• Wikipedia will live forever.

At least, as long as we remember to keep them alive.