Comments on: Noisy planet earth: are we becoming the frat house of the Milky Way? http://cultureby.com/2009/06/noisy-planet-earth-are-we-becoming-the-frat-house-of-the-milky-way.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: srp http://cultureby.com/2009/06/noisy-planet-earth-are-we-becoming-the-frat-house-of-the-milky-way.html/comment-page-1#comment-686 srp Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:54:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=78#comment-686 All this digital matter will soon be lost to the ages as formats and technologies change. Much of the pre-Web Internet is gone. The Internet archives (Wayback pages) are far from complete. How much stuff on old floppy disks will ever be readable? The good news is that Sturgeon's Law still holds--90% of everything is crap, so we just need a little bit of bias toward saving the good stuff and what we retain will have a high density of quality. All this digital matter will soon be lost to the ages as formats and technologies change. Much of the pre-Web Internet is gone. The Internet archives (Wayback pages) are far from complete. How much stuff on old floppy disks will ever be readable?

The good news is that Sturgeon’s Law still holds–90% of everything is crap, so we just need a little bit of bias toward saving the good stuff and what we retain will have a high density of quality.

]]> By: Rick Liebling http://cultureby.com/2009/06/noisy-planet-earth-are-we-becoming-the-frat-house-of-the-milky-way.html/comment-page-1#comment-685 Rick Liebling Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:19:27 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=78#comment-685 "Brace yourself, darling, someday all of us will be Steve Rubel" She should be so lucky (we all should). For the most part, Steve is making intelligent contributions to the signal to noise ratio. Unfortunately most people are merely clogging this up with sheer stupidity at best (Real Housewives of...), vitriol at worst (Ann Coulter). Another concern I have is in regards to how difficult it will be now to identify, and celebrate, the truly outstanding. What are the truly important oratories, speeches or texts of the last 10 years? Not popular, not smart (plenty of both of those), but important? When everyone is generating content all the time are we taking the time to absorb and consider? Yes, we can record every thought for posterity, but should we? “Brace yourself, darling, someday all of us will be Steve Rubel”

She should be so lucky (we all should). For the most part, Steve is making intelligent contributions to the signal to noise ratio. Unfortunately most people are merely clogging this up with sheer stupidity at best (Real Housewives of…), vitriol at worst (Ann Coulter).

Another concern I have is in regards to how difficult it will be now to identify, and celebrate, the truly outstanding. What are the truly important oratories, speeches or texts of the last 10 years? Not popular, not smart (plenty of both of those), but important? When everyone is generating content all the time are we taking the time to absorb and consider?

Yes, we can record every thought for posterity, but should we?

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