I see it less as us storing too much, but rather that it's impossible for us to tell what will be truly of historical significance (and thus worth preserving) i

I see it less as us storing too much, but rather that it's impossible for us to tell what will be truly of historical significance (and thus worth preserving) in the next 10, 20, 50, 100 years. Think about it in terms of art. Social media has exploded with various digital artists of all kinds. With the tools available to us these days, I'd also posit at least some of that art in a few hundred years would be considered beyond even the renaissance masters. However, the sheer amount of it available today compared to the past likely means most of it will be lost to history. Taking the same logic in reverse, how many masterpieces in history were lost because they weren't important to store, or their creator went undiscovered for their entire lives? The same can be said to all sorts of knowledge and insights. Given that digital media is largely some kind of knowledge storage, we'll likely lose a ton of those too.