1) Be preserved and always accessible.
2) Be created, develop and evolve.
Even if we regress, stagnate, or progress our machines will be there. The only thing that will stop them from developing, growing, is human extinction before they can create themselves. In the event humans become extinct, if there is creative super artificial intelligence another biological sentience may be created.
The question who creates who, from what we know there are two possibilities 1) Evolution of life from nonliving matter 2) Intelligence from intelligence. These are the only possible origins in the known cosmos.
