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All humans everywhere have a responsibility to preserve culture and knowledge to the best of their ability. I think what you meant to say is that none of us can
by NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
All humans everywhere have a responsibility to preserve culture and knowledge to the best of their ability. I think what you meant to say is that none of us can trust Google with this important task.
- renewiltord 2y agoOne of the great tragedies of civilization is that we leave things in the hands of those who do them rather than in the hands of those who tell us about our responsibility to do them.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoI personally do what I can. I've been trying to find old phone books and catalogs at garage sales, scanning them when I can get them. I teach my children that this is a responsibility of theirs. But if you're offering me even a fraction of Google's budget, I think I might manage to scale things up.
- renewiltord 2y agoPerhaps a second tragedy is that we give money to those who provide us with something. A better world might be where we give Google’s money to people so that they can teach children to buy phone books at garage sales. In this way, civilization may prosper.
- Apocryphon 2y agoA simple search for "phone books" on Google Books yields no actual phone books, so the poster is objectively doing a better job than Google on that front.