This isn’t 5000BC where only like a handful of people know how to read and write; there’s no end to the culture of this period, I don’t think a handful of items being permanently lost will forever obscure the culture of this period. It’s hardly the 90%-99% loss of ancient writing like what happened with works from ancient Greece, Persia, etc.
I think future historians will be able to get over this loss.
The amount of writing lost is also immense. Not to mention media like movies, tv and so on. The idea that “oh they will manage” is not a new one. Look into the victorian “third spice”.
No, the physical artefacts like this one that got all slashed up are all that will remain after Google/Meta/etc turn off their servers once the old content becomes unprofitable. Future historians will indeed call the early 21st century a dark age, because while books, sculptures, and paintings can last a thousand years, digital media in “the cloud” fucking won’t.
This isn’t 5000BC where only like a handful of people know how to read and write; there’s no end to the culture of this period, I don’t think a handful of items being permanently lost will forever obscure the culture of this period. It’s hardly the 90%-99% loss of ancient writing like what happened with works from ancient Greece, Persia, etc.
I think future historians will be able to get over this loss.
That attitude is what leads to us losing so much of our cultural archives.
Only 3% of games from before 1985 are still available for reissue. And only about 13% of games issued from before 2010 The rest of these games are considered, by archivists, “critically endangered”.
Only 5% of physical art is likely to survive the next century
The amount of writing lost is also immense. Not to mention media like movies, tv and so on. The idea that “oh they will manage” is not a new one. Look into the victorian “third spice”.
No, the physical artefacts like this one that got all slashed up are all that will remain after Google/Meta/etc turn off their servers once the old content becomes unprofitable. Future historians will indeed call the early 21st century a dark age, because while books, sculptures, and paintings can last a thousand years, digital media in “the cloud” fucking won’t.