How is this different than any other point in history? Throughout time, the vast majority of records and artifacts were lost, and only some given percentage sur

How is this different than any other point in history? Throughout time, the vast majority of records and artifacts were lost, and only some given percentage survive. Let's say it's ~2% for argument's sake...actually, the amount of material that survives would decay over time - 40% after 10 years, 20% after 50 years, etc. I have no idea what the rate of decay for digital records, information, and archives would be, but I would think it would be higher than information stored as hard copies of paper, books, etc. Of course, we are also producing orders of magnitudes more information than we were in the past.