![]() When so much information is on the table, it is difficult for anyone to fully parse what is useful and true. The exponential increase of digital information. It seems unlikely that the amount of information will continue to climb at its current rate for the next few thousand years, and some of that information will likely be lost to time, but there will still be an unfathomable data set of human writing, calculations, and communication available to future researchers. ![]() The Lewis Mumford of 5934 AD might write a book called The Myth of Information about how researchers have misjudged the ancient 2000s by assuming that the stores of online communication and writing were particularly influential to the culture of “the real world”. ![]() ![]() Suppose a researcher gets access to a several thousand year old Twitter server. ![]()
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