The Dark Age of Abundance
Historians often fear a "Digital Dark Age" where all our data is lost to format rot. The Crisis of Noise suggests the opposite threat: we might save everything, but find nothing. In an ecosystem where AI can generate millions of documents a second (Digital Plastic), and where every trivial social media post is stored forever, the signal-to-noise ratio collapses.
For the archaeobytologist, the challenge is no longer just excavation; it is Triage. We are not just looking for the buried potsherd; we are trying to find the one real shard in a mountain of plastic replicas.
Triage as the Cure
The only solution to the Crisis of Noise is rigorous curation. This is why the discipline prioritizes The Triage—the act of choosing what *not* to save is as important as the act of preservation. Without curation, the archive becomes a landfill.