According to @a16z, 98% of what you're reading online today will be lost by 2040. In "How to Close the Web's Memory Hole?" podcast, @InternetArchive's @brewster_kahle & @ArweaveTeam's Sam Williams on how libraries & #DWeb protocols are filling the hole.
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2/ @brewster_kahle "The idea was to build a Library of Alexandria for the digital age. Could we go & make all the published works of mankind available to everybody? In computer readable form so we could build a global brain. But a lot of the actual published works aren't there."
3/ @brewster_kahle "If you don't have referenceable materials, either through the web era or back through the 20th century, you could just make things up. And we're suffering from that right now."
4/ Sam Williams: "What's really striking, 98.4% of the content on the web is lost within 20 years. Like, 98.4%. Essentially the entire thing resets, which is really incredible given that we're embedding it at the core of our societies as the fundamental way of transmitting info."
5/ @brewster_kahle on #Decentralized web: . "The decentralized copies approach, especially if it's built right into how a next generation web works, that would be a better system than the kind of kluge—which is the worldwide web and then trying to back it up separately."
6/ @brewster_kahle "It's sort of the promise of the #Decentralized web. And where Arweave is part of that whole sphere is, can we make the web itself sort of a self-archiving structure? Can it be more like how Git works?"
7/ @brewster_kahle: ""I don't think it's just a technological hack that we need...being able to share, people don't like to share in bulk. So how do you go and encourage that & build it into the protocol itself? Make it so there's an ongoing interest in having materials live."
