[aethertron]

Perhaps neglected web content should die. Improvement via a kind of Darwinian mechanism would depend on that.

Web content that people that people care about could last forever if we adopted the Federated Wiki patterns, i.e. don't just link, but copy content from other sites and put it on your own (everything there is, in principle, licensed CC share-alike).

[rietta]

Should books be destroyed after the life of the author as well?

[emodendroket]

Let's be real here. Tons of books are pulped all the time. Pruning their collections is a major activity that occupies libraries.

[aethertron]

No.

In some cases they should be destroyed during the life of the author (e.g. a book filled with CSAM photos).