I'm terrified of data loss. I'm not talking about me personally having a hard drive failure and having been too stupid to make backups, but general public loss. Like books, movies, games that were once loved by many, but with zero copy of them still being

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Doomer 06/11/19 (Tue) 20:31:37 No.22748

I'm terrified of data loss. I'm not talking about me personally having a hard drive failure and having been too stupid to make backups, but general public loss. Like books, movies, games that were once loved by many, but with zero copy of them still being around. The inability to access that knowledge… The fact that everything we do will most likely be forgotten forever at some point… It feels me with dread.

Especially in the information age where the medium used for keeping the data may fail too. Data won't hold forever on a floppy, DVD, nor even hard drive. And even if they did, the day the last VHS player will die is the day no one will be able to watch a VHS ever again.

Data is everything and it is so fleeting. We create so much, there is no way we will be able to keep it all. How to choose what to keep? Who should choose? Should we even have to choose?

I'm too sober right now.

Doomer 06/12/19 (Wed) 05:45:29 No.22843

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Yeah, media comes and goes. Most people don't appreciate it until it's gone.

I guarantee that in a hundred years, historians will look at our pop culture and find something worthy of commemorating, even if we think it's shit in the present day. It happens with every era.

Doomer 06/12/19 (Wed) 12:06:23 No.22862

>>22748

What makes me comfortable about this is fact that most of the "data" you are talking about is totally worthless. Yes okay, I was collecting really obscure poetry few years ago, I found it to be greatest stuff ever written but is it really?

a) What would truly change if those pieces would be gone forever? Probably nothing.

b) In order to appreciate some piece of information (in other words - find it somehow valuable), you have to understand it. People evolve constantly, our culture does and today even generations which are still alive don't understand problems of the others. Good example might be also european paganism, which is either understood as bunch of fairytales by cavemen or tiny bit of greater wisdom of our ancestors but we lack keys to understand it.

If you have no one to understand, no one to care, information you carved to stone is worthless.

>>22843

>historians will look at our pop culture and find something worthy of commemorating, even if we think it's shit in the present day. It happens with every era.

People are fascinated by tragic or very happy events in our history. So I kind of hope this era will be forgotten as years between world wars or 1910-1914.

Doomer 06/12/19 (Wed) 15:20:31 No.22888

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>>22748

It's usually the media that exist off the beaten path that tends to be of highest quality, albeit in trace amounts. They may not have big budgets behind them, but they exist in an environment where making the best content is encouraged. In the near two decades I've been alive, I've always been of fan of so much obscure media. There were fulfilling qualities present in them that I couldn't find in their legacy counterparts. Unfortunately, they typically had very short shelf lives, and a lot of what I used to cherish is now either inaccessible, or wiped from the internet and their creators vanished, and now they only have relevance to myself and a few others after all these years., or even decades

But I guess that's the thing with data, most of it - culture, history, pictures, experiences, the little things, get lost, while only a minuscule fraction of it remains and is remembered for years to come. Will this change? Even with new technologies, there's bound to be a lot of hiccups, but that too could probably be solved and perhaps there'll be a way to archive every byte of data from the moment of uploading, or creation.

Doomer 06/12/19 (Wed) 16:15:37 No.22895

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>>22748

Ancient egyptians hewed their history into granite. We put ours onto mediums that degrade in a decade.

They built with 100-ton-sized pieces of stone, we build with finger-thick glass and steel, and purposefully stick a bunch of goop onto our houses as vital components that doesn't last more than a single generation.

Future archeologists are going to see these last couple decades as a dark age with nothing to prove it even existed.