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by iandinwoodie 1939 days ago
Where do you put 4000 years of data? Imagine indexing / searching that. If all data can’t be kept, who will get to decide what is important? It’s a really interesting topic
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This is what librarians (used to?) do. Decide what is important, and which works are the best ones to save. Then organize it all.

The current mode of "save everything forever" collapses unless you have tools to find the needles in the haystacks.