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Quite a spectacularly wrong take on multiple levels. So much great literature comes from centuries before our own. And considering that the internet is likely
by instagraham 5y ago
Quite a spectacularly wrong take on multiple levels.
So much great literature comes from centuries before our own. And considering that the internet is likely to be around forever or as long as humans persist, a snapshot of its initial decades will one day be one of the greatest "archaeological" treasures.
Perhaps your main point is that you do not care for their work nor for the work of literature written before your time. You need not apply your yardstick to anything else in a bid to gauge its value.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoBut 70 petabytes worth? Most people in this thread mention a few dozens authors. Maybe this amounts to a few hundred books. Not 70 petabytes (and counting).
- allturtles 5y agoSure, no human has ever read 70 petabytes worth of books. An archive is not the same as a local public library. The latter holds a small collection of mostly frequently accessed items (e.g. the published works of Dickens, Austen, etc.). The former holds a much larger collection of rarely accessed items (e.g. every letter written by/to Dickens that survived, every political pamphlet published in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century , etc.). If your point is that most items in the archive will be rarely accessed, I don't think anyone will disagree with you, but suggesting that the literature of the nineteenth century is no longer of any interest was perhaps not the best way of making that point.