The belief that we could save endlessly online turned us all into information hoarders. What society needs instead is better systems for preserving public knowledge.
Many of the photos and videos we amass are never even viewed again after they are taken—we just toss them all into Google’s big bucket, knowing we’ll be able to find what we need later. We approach email similarly, archiving everything because the marginal cost of doing so is effectively zero, and there has been little reason to delete anything thus far. Anxious that we might delete something we will end up needing later, we err on the side of caution by saving it all.
, “the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish.”this digital inventory radiates outward from our private spheres; our failure to consider what we should keep and what we should discard, or to organize any of it, inscribes itself on the internet at large.
The rise of email newsletters on platforms like Substack, for example, has moved blogging to private inboxes, meaning that thousands of individuals frequently store their own duplicative copy of a post that would have previously just been hosted on a single server. As social media has grown to account for a larger share of internet content, that content has become more ephemeral, vulnerable to
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