As a photographer its something I’ve thought about, how our work can still be seen after we’re gone. Best thing for me is to make as many prints as possible but there will still be so much lost.
Cloud storage, probably the worse case scenario, what happens to that data once we stop a/. stop living or b/. stop paying - same thing commercially as a/.
“When you think about the quantity of documentation from our daily lives that is captured in digital form, like our interactions by email, people’s tweets, and all of the world wide web, it’s clear that we stand to lose an awful lot of our history,” [Cerf] said.
I’m not sure if it’s the article or Cerf, but someone is overstating the problem IMNSHO. Before recently, the quantity of archived material was much, much smaller. Now what we’re creating is growing at an exponential rate and we’re running out of room to store it even in digital form.
On top of that, most of what he mentions in the quote above is junk! I pity the historian that would have to go through all of what we’ve done digitally to figure out what is important. LOL
Don’t get me wrong. There’s something great about going through grandma’s old photos or whatever that’s already changed in a way that might be irrevocable for future generations. But how much of this matters beyond a few people?