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Maybe the Internet and its function as memory of humankind may break that cycle in the future?
by coffeeblack 5y ago
Maybe the Internet and its function as memory of humankind may break that cycle in the future?
- groby_b 5y agoUnfortunately, large parts of human memory are 404. I wish that was just a pithy remark - link rot is really, and it's rapid. Add to that that modern paper is deteriorating at a rapid pace, and the memory of humankind is starting to look shaky.
- chii 5y agobut books has been available for a long time - wouldn't this have made a difference?
- junon 5y agoIndexing, barrier to entry, higher degree of perspectives and levels of explanation/understanding, different mediums, etc.
- coffeeblack 5y agoBooks are more abstract. The internet has video and sound and casual conversations and memes and the daily trivialities of the life of millions of ordinary people. If books and newspapers made a as difference when they were new, I don’t know. But now I want to know.
- pintxo 5y agoThe internet is pull-based. Grandparents push their experiences to their offspring.
- coffeeblack 5y agoTrue. But I could imagine that 100 years from now, kids may browse the Facebook feed of their great grandparents, maybe even as a immersive 3D recreation of the life of their relative from a century ago. Including all their personal notes and thoughts.