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The article starts with an asymmetric comparison of the survival of a single set of documents from 2,000 years ago and then lamenting the loss of some documents
by cowsandmilk 3y ago
The article starts with an asymmetric comparison of the survival of a single set of documents from 2,000 years ago and then lamenting the loss of some documents today. We don’t have all the songs 16 year olds wrote 2,000 years ago. But that is largely what was lost in the MySpace’s data loss. The truth is, we’ve lost the vast majority of what was created in every era and there is no reason to believe we are losing more today than 2,000 years ago or even 100 years ago.
- hollander 3y agoBut we are losing more these days than 2000 years ago. And we save lots more as well. Think of how many billions people can write or paint now and can make photos. How many could write or paint then?
- dtech 3y agoPeople were creative back then too. Most of it just wasn't captured other than orally and we have lost the vast, vast majority of that.