and even the old computer like those computers you cannot even read the data to find your history even for yourself if you lose the data you're cooked you cannot find it So how are people going to know about our age since
we have so much pictures and nothing is printed and nothing is really documented really tangibly once the phone and the servers are gone and they are locked behind encryption
Legible media were a way of "preserving what's worth preserving" via what wasn't thrown away, and give or take disaster or deliberate shredding.
A kind of quality ranking, but what do we do in the age of bot clickbait "quantity over quality?"
Must we keep everything? I'll keep my slides even after that are scanned, but I already sorted out the best out of space and access concerns.
Sometimes constraints nudge us in the "right" direction.
Looking at my disk drives (seriously in need of sorting ) very little is unique (my products) [0], a lot of photo files and scans, and a ton of material I downloaded from the internet, of which a tiny bit is really still useful.
And books and music score downloads, which will probaby be safely archived by others.
I don't regret giving away hundreds of pounds of printed musical scores. They never laid flat, anyway. The ipad does.
[0] even when 100mb disks were common, one author said that his writings would fit on a floppy.
bigyabai•1h ago
Project Silica is a pretty cool example of how you could potentially circumvent this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...