> This relates to something I've been feeling lately.. we're losing so much of our digital culture.
We're losing a huge percentage of what's being created, but the overall percentage preserved is going up lightning-fast... it's weird as a historian to try to go through history, knowing it's incredibly incomplete. Landmark global-defining events regarding the early Roman Republic, Mongolian Khanates, etc, are incredibly poorly documented, and scholarly works on the topic contain tons of speculation and guesses about what happened to fill in the blanks.
Like, really basic trivial stuff that wasn't recorded because the price/benefit ratio wasn't worth doing when capture and transmission of information was so expensive.
While we're losing a lot, the rate at which we can and do keep things is growing tremendously... it'll be an interesting future, for sure. (Sorting through all the mess, on the other hand, is going to become much trickier...)
We're losing a huge percentage of what's being created, but the overall percentage preserved is going up lightning-fast... it's weird as a historian to try to go through history, knowing it's incredibly incomplete. Landmark global-defining events regarding the early Roman Republic, Mongolian Khanates, etc, are incredibly poorly documented, and scholarly works on the topic contain tons of speculation and guesses about what happened to fill in the blanks.
Like, really basic trivial stuff that wasn't recorded because the price/benefit ratio wasn't worth doing when capture and transmission of information was so expensive.
While we're losing a lot, the rate at which we can and do keep things is growing tremendously... it'll be an interesting future, for sure. (Sorting through all the mess, on the other hand, is going to become much trickier...)