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> a digital copy with the ability of doing millions of copies is stored somewhere

somewhere were we can't access it. as the article states: “permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers”

the issue isn't that the physical copy is gone, it's that they are preventing people from making digital copies that are actually accessible by destroying the physical copies.

> If you go to a recycling centre, the garbage to quality ratio is over 100 or more.

archivists keep everything, because we don't know right now what will be important 100 years from now.

parent nloomans 2 months ago

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