Is it really a big deal that some really old movies are lost ... sorry but I just don't see why ...
I wish lots of content disappeared - in the past the passage of time was a way to filter for quality, because we only bothered to preserve something worth preserving.
Forgetting is also a gift - it is is foolish to think that you have to preserve everything.
I think it is a much bigger problem that too much of today's photos and videos are preserved.
Every phenomenal photo of a sunset takes away the future generation's credit when recreating an identically phenomenal sunset.
The current archival processes are something so radically new, we don't yet understand how it shapes society.
I wish lots of content disappeared - in the past the passage of time was a way to filter for quality, because we only bothered to preserve something worth preserving.
Forgetting is also a gift - it is is foolish to think that you have to preserve everything.
I think it is a much bigger problem that too much of today's photos and videos are preserved.
Every phenomenal photo of a sunset takes away the future generation's credit when recreating an identically phenomenal sunset.
The current archival processes are something so radically new, we don't yet understand how it shapes society.