[DoingIsLearning]

I disagree, the unfiltered high noise is what makes it valuable. Curation is a bias.

If someone wants to dive into any topic in the archive 30 years from now they will have access to everything, not access to what some of us deem 'worthy' of curating.

I agree that it makes it harder to find things but I also see the value of IA as a time capsule.

[lkbm]

Yes, curation is very valuable, but it needs to be a layer on top of an uncurated source.

I enjoy using Open Library to re-read obscure middle grades books from the 1950s-1990, and there are some obscure DOS games I want to revisit. It's hard to find what I want sometimes, but only having access to curated lists would change it from "hard" to "impossible" in many cases.

[londons_explore]

Tools to separate signal from noise will also get better in the future. You can imagine that in 100 years time, using a super duper AI search engine will perform far better than whatever some human decided to categorize stuff as today.