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> We are going to lose the data and things are going to break no matter what. We cannot change the nature, but we can accept it. If man was content with the na
by hiatus 2y ago
> We are going to lose the data and things are going to break no matter what. We cannot change the nature, but we can accept it.
If man was content with the nature of things he would never fly, or go to the moon, or any of the other myriad accomplishments humanity has made. If we can preserve clay tablets from thousands of years ago we can find some way to keep the information we produce today for posterity.
- ivan_gammel 2y agoI’m not arguing with that. We can and we will preserve some information. We must not be obsessed with saving everything. Imagine the humankind in a million years from now; if we pick 10 most important facts about each century, that will be a hundred thousand facts to remember. Maybe we develop abilities to know and use them all, but from a modern human perspective that’s already too much. Now, can you reduce the XXI century to 10 facts? How much of those zettabytes of information would be worth keeping for a million years? For ten thousand years? For a thousand years?