1/ The whole issue of legacy is a problem I didn't expected with relation to digital culture.
#BTC and crypto in general illustrate this point: right now you have nothing essentially better than giving the keys to a lawyer and hope for the best.
2/ You can imagine a lot of schemes to tame this issue but, as the lawyer solution they are rather antithetical with the very idea of cryptocurrencies: you lose pseudonymity, you need to centralize again (going to see a lawyer is the most centralizing thing I can think about)...
3/ I suspect this issue to be much more profound.
There is no time/death in a virtual world by opposition to real world. But one major feature amor any culture is how you share it with the next generation.
When culture is objectified (via books, teachers, institutions like
4/ academia...) It is naturally implemented : you give the book, put it in a library etc. But when culture is virtual how does it work ?
One point to show it is not straightforwardly equivalent : digital culture never forgets (the point of Blockchain). But forgetting
5/ useless things is paramount to a good working memory. It is even true at a biological level (when you are a kid a huge part of learning consists in erasing neural connections). Otherwise you are flooded with too many useless data (think at all the cat videos on YouTube).
6/ So how do you access this huge amount of data ? Through a search engine, but this engine is an #AI that works in mysterious ways. The #AI at time X is not the same as the one at time y.
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2/ Example: "Public health action requires careful judgement and acceptance of responsibility
for the outcomes.". Can you imagine a document in which it is written that you are going have a "careless" action, and without accepting any responsability ? No: so this sentence is void
3/ Another example: "The timeline for work should be realistically set."
Have you ever red a guideline recommending "irrealistically set" timelines?