Life in Fifteen Gigabytes - Journal #146

and locked up huge quantities of useful material in them, so that when new architectures replaced old, the data became inaccessible.

This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it.