Stratscraps v167.

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/

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 s