(Image by 12019 from Pixabay) In 2024, it is easy to imagine that all human knowledge is online forever – and can now be explained by an AI system; but this ignores the fact that an estimated 82% of websites are dormant, while countless others have vanished from the internet since the 1990s, along with their archives of data. (If the internet is truly the world’s memory, then much of it has been wiped, or can only be glimpsed through whatever caches remain.) It also ignores the fact that a vast amount of data, knowledge, insight, memories, and expertise is found in libraries.

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