The Paradox of Abundance
We generate more data in a day than previous centuries produced in decades, yet our digital civilization is the most fragile in history. Stone endures; servers do not. We are building on sand.
Agents of Decay
- Link Rot: The breaking of hyperlinks over time, severing the connective tissue of the knowledge graph.
- Format Obsolescence: Data that is perfectly preserved but unreadable because the software to interpret it no longer exists.
- The Churn: The shutdown of platforms (GeoCities, Vine) that wipes out millions of user artifacts in a single corporate decision.