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This lack of care is amazing. On one side there is a majority of people who react with oh, there's so much worthless stuff shared and consumed every day. On the
by xorand 8y ago
This lack of care is amazing. On one side there is a majority of people who react with oh, there's so much worthless stuff shared and consumed every day. On the other side there are people who realize that there is so much valuable information, which takes so little memory by today standards.
Take for example Sci-Hub library of articles. It's only 70TB. Most of it is not stuff people share and like and consume like they do with Youtube or Instagram. Most of it is even old, because many recent scientific articles are available without passing through Sci-Hub.
Only 70TB of valuable data, in a sea of crap. We might loose this any day. Which corporation cares about a tiny ammount of data?
Or suppose you're a historian in 100 years from now. What you have as sources? Nothing? In the age where everything is posted on social media? Too bad, Google or Facebook or others like that decided to trash a huge quantity of data, most of it crap, to be sure, and a tiny quantity of unique, or hard to produce, or scientific, artistic data.
Books which you can't read because MS drops a service? How many of the share-and-like people passed by the experience of writing a book?