I think the point is that you can’t know what you don’t know. They weren’t naive back then, they were ignorant and limited by the technology of the time.
We preserve stuff precisely because we don’t know how it might be useful in the future.
We have a name for things we know for sure won’t be useful in the future: Trash.
Yes, absolutely, but we also preserve everything because separating the wheat from the chaff is too much work. For example, most people store all the pictures they take because it’s easier than selecting the ones we might want later. But we kmow some of them are useless.
True but at the dawn of computing we were too naïve. We couldn’t imagine people would record everything.
I think the point is that you can’t know what you don’t know. They weren’t naive back then, they were ignorant and limited by the technology of the time.
We preserve stuff precisely because we don’t know how it might be useful in the future.
We have a name for things we know for sure won’t be useful in the future: Trash.
Yes, absolutely, but we also preserve everything because separating the wheat from the chaff is too much work. For example, most people store all the pictures they take because it’s easier than selecting the ones we might want later. But we kmow some of them are useless.
See but that’s my point. They are useless as far as we can tell in the present.
Maybe in 2 years we will regret not having mountains of recorded streams when we’re training models for AI streamers. And so on and so forth.