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redwoolf | 1 year ago

Many years in the future, after global warming wrecks our world, when humanity rebuilds civilization, they will be glad for folks like this person. Without physical books there will be no way to reconstruct our time and tell our story. Digital media will be useless to future generations if there’s a blip in continuity.

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JadeNB|1 year ago

> Digital media will be useless to future generations if there’s a blip in continuity.

If anything, this undersells it: plenty of not-very-old digital media is useless today with no blip in continuity, either because of bit rot or, more commonly, because of perfectly good data in a format for which there don't exist readers any more.

bluGill|1 year ago

Don't forget too that it is some form of subscription and the owners decided not to continue keeping that in your subscription.

eleveriven|1 year ago

Surviving artifacts of our culture and knowledge