The digital is impermanent

Related to the idea that [[ the internet is a dead mall ]], we take for granted that our digital communications will be there forever. They won’t.

from a MIT Technology Review article:

There is no guarantee of digital permanence. Though tech companies certainly reference data storage and archiving as a core selling point of their services, online documents like emails are at once both more permanent and more ephemeral than analog letters. And we all need to get used to this idea.

the internet is for ghosts

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