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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.
More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.
We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
When Online Content Disappears
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Overall, data is growing at an incomprehensible speed, an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes (exabytes) of data per day. A quintillion is a 1 with 18 zeros.
Eric Siegel • Predictive Analytics
"Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all [now nearly twice] the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," ecologist Jeff Dukes explained.
In another calculation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Rev
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