> I think people all seek a permanent legacy of some sort. I don't think our digital junk really fits. There are IRL costs to hoarding junk; I'm really not sure any benefits - of keeping _all_ someone's digital miscellany - justify those costs?
I think with a lot of things there's a J shaped value curve. Over long periods of time, things of small value (including literal garbage) become historical and archeological treasure.
Also this doesn't seems like it's really mean to be storage for random "junk":
> Permanent.org isn't just another digital box or drive. It's a digital archive.
> Upload your most important digital materials to your archive and customize the archive profile to represent you. Create multiple archives for other people and organizations. Then establish relationships to share materials between them and create everlasting connections. Collaborate with your community by adding members to any archive to curate a shared history.
That implies there's a certain level of curation that's supposed to go into the archive, so more diaries and important records than your "Downloads" folder.
> I think with a lot of things there's a J shaped value curve. Over long periods of time, things of small value (including literal garbage) become historical and archeological treasure.
Isn't that mostly because of it becoming a rare insight into a time that is long gone? With perfect preservation, would literal scraps of garbage from 10k years ago be individually interesting?
I think with a lot of things there's a J shaped value curve. Over long periods of time, things of small value (including literal garbage) become historical and archeological treasure.
Also this doesn't seems like it's really mean to be storage for random "junk":
> Permanent.org isn't just another digital box or drive. It's a digital archive.
> Upload your most important digital materials to your archive and customize the archive profile to represent you. Create multiple archives for other people and organizations. Then establish relationships to share materials between them and create everlasting connections. Collaborate with your community by adding members to any archive to curate a shared history.
That implies there's a certain level of curation that's supposed to go into the archive, so more diaries and important records than your "Downloads" folder.