Shufei 🈳@cypnk The number repeatedly given for the proportion of silent films lost to time is 90%. Fifty years worth of seminal culture, the birth of a new form of collective human literacy, gone like a forgotten rumour. I also mourn how virtually all we know first hand of Ancient Greek history boils down to barely more than 2 historians, the loss of Alexandria’s gem...
Given that virtually none of the new infotech has a horizon beyond ten years, the future for our now looks as grim.
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