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web pages lasted an average of forty-four days before changing or disappearing altogether.
Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.
More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.
We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
what does art become when the form goes extinct?
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online siblings could be... See more
Folkert Gorter • Clippings by Folkert Gorter
5. On the internet, action doesn’t build the future, it only feeds the digital archives of the past.
stealing • Retrofuturism
