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We don't, which can be a shame, but it's not like we used to be able to memorialize everyone's entire history of conversation and achievement so it's not a part

by ehnto 6y ago

We don't, which can be a shame, but it's not like we used to be able to memorialize everyone's entire history of conversation and achievement so it's not a particularly new problem.

2OEH8eoCRo0 6y ago
Agreed. Not everything is worth saving. You aren't special. That's okay.
- arkitaip 6y ago
  I think everyone is special enough that their life data warrants preserving. If archeology and history has taught us anything, is that we are curious about the daily lives of ordinary people, to be able to understand and delete to our ancestors.
  - lupire 6y ago
    Archaeologists don't want everyone's data. They want samples.
    - jakubp 6y ago
      Were you never curious "What did the Romans or Egyptians really think about X? How did they really spend their days?" I know I am curious and history books leave more questions than answers. Even the most well preserved facts about kings/dynasties/wars are partial at best and leave out so many interesting things out... My feeling is that archeologists et al would love 10x or 1000x more data about what happened in the past -- not to have to guess everything and never be sure "is that really what happened?"
  - michaelt 6y ago
    It's not clear to me that you really do someone a favour by archiving their data forever. An awful lot of digging into people's past online is done for mean-spirited reasons like finding something to embarrass them.
raghuveerdotnet 6y ago
Agree on one level, but on the contrary, if we give the medium its due, it is much more conducive to memorialization than the pre-digitized/non-digitized world. I think this question might help future "anthropologist-like" professionals to go about understanding the developments much better than what we can do today. This is to say that there is significantly better contextual returns when asking this question in a digitised environment than in a non-digitized environment like in-person physical conversations and other similar events.

by ehnto 6y ago

We don't, which can be a shame, but it's not like we used to be able to memorialize everyone's entire history of conversation and achievement so it's not a particularly new problem.

2OEH8eoCRo0 6y ago

Agreed. Not everything is worth saving. You aren't special. That's okay.

arkitaip 6y ago
I think everyone is special enough that their life data warrants preserving. If archeology and history has taught us anything, is that we are curious about the daily lives of ordinary people, to be able to understand and delete to our ancestors.
- lupire 6y ago
  Archaeologists don't want everyone's data. They want samples.
  - jakubp 6y ago
    Were you never curious "What did the Romans or Egyptians really think about X? How did they really spend their days?" I know I am curious and history books leave more questions than answers. Even the most well preserved facts about kings/dynasties/wars are partial at best and leave out so many interesting things out... My feeling is that archeologists et al would love 10x or 1000x more data about what happened in the past -- not to have to guess everything and never be sure "is that really what happened?"
- michaelt 6y ago
  It's not clear to me that you really do someone a favour by archiving their data forever. An awful lot of digging into people's past online is done for mean-spirited reasons like finding something to embarrass them.

raghuveerdotnet 6y ago

Agree on one level, but on the contrary, if we give the medium its due, it is much more conducive to memorialization than the pre-digitized/non-digitized world. I think this question might help future "anthropologist-like" professionals to go about understanding the developments much better than what we can do today. This is to say that there is significantly better contextual returns when asking this question in a digitised environment than in a non-digitized environment like in-person physical conversations and other similar events.