Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The Time Has Come: The Archive Everything Movement" video.

  1. History is continually rewritten, even in its very assemblage. "The victors write the history", but any history writer is similarly sculpting historical recollection by virtue of his unique perspective. There is a new sort of "history" developing to take account of modern storage efficiencies. It used to be, the history that survived the ravages of time was a patchwork of anecdotes--a letter here, a story there--from historical figures with the peculiar penchant for producing personal data. Now, data echos endlessly throughout a digital medium, leaving persistent traces of itself wherever it goes. The raw material of historicity has changed from point sources to "field" sources. Instead of one or three perspectives, the new data field is virtually holographic! Any starting point can lead to any end point. To eliminate such information would require the elimination of EVERYTHING...
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  2. You can't allow "secret storage", which would be the sponsorship of "terrorism", right? You can, if you can guarantee access limitation. Can you guarantee nobody but me will access the sponsored storage? That I can't surreptitiously convey access privileges to someone else, which would be tantamount to "communication", via "dropbox"?! Not currently, I think...
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