Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.
I bought the rights to 'Ready, Steady, Go!' several years ago because I didn't want the segments to be chopped up and sold off. I thought the shows should be left intact.
RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.
I'm a child of the internet.
No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
