tweet this

Out of context: Reply #14

  • Started
  • Last post
  • 27 Responses
  • dMullins0

    A bit to your point here, airey.

    Just read the article/blog post. I love how the first response was "how much is this shit going to cost me?" The thing that pisses me off I guess is that it is all just garbage in the long run. Printing and cataloging it all creates even more garbage. So great, we have an archive of garbage now. What's important today to most people means nothing tomorrow. Maybe in 100 years, we will look back in awe of our disillusionment—"How were the masses so fooled?" On the other hand, I sort of like that they are making this "hard" fingerprint of it all...something tangible to represent it. Will it be printed? Will it be digital/web-based? Will anyone ever care again that DJ AM died and that it was the most popular subject for like a whole week on Twitter? Or will it be more interesting that the artifacts which start to represent this information/social age will be less and less tangible?

    There is something to be said though for major institutions acclimating in real-world positive ways like this. The Library of Congress essentially adopting/acknowledging professionally a trend and format of the "social age" and cataloging it in its pure form is pretty great for all industries that touch information media. But again, on the other hand you've got the White House basically crowdsourcing politics—http://bit.ly/dy9fkL #whgc—and god knows only loudmouthed dipshits like me use the Internet.

    • i'm sure it will be a searchable database like the wayback machine. printing it all would be retardedscarabin
    • You underestimate the wastefulness of American government.dMullins

View thread