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Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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I think it would be interesting to have some kind of global archive. Even if descendants don't care "now" has the potential to be the beginning of the best documented era in history. Historians would kill for photographs by random average people from any other time.
A lot of people thought that that's what the Internet would be, but that's obviously not the case. And I know the "right to be forgotten" is a thing, and deservedly so, but at some point you're throwing out the wine with the amphora.
Doesn't archive.org provide that?
In theory yes, but not a lot of people are uploading their family photo albums AFAIK.
No, we do have that. Social media is a gold mine for analysis, both for modern sociology and for future archaeology.