Why not all of it, or at least all the information we can easily find in a digital format? It still freaks me out every now and then, but we’ve passed the age where hard drives limited the amount of data you could possess. Of course you still would want some data to be more easily accessible and findable after a global catastrophe (so I feel like I’m not really answering the question ‘Which data do you need after a global catastrophe’), but that’s no reason to not store all of it.
Well, I was surprised to see Wikipedia being listed, so I was thinking of all text that can be found on the internet, or all (maybe except videos?) of the internet. But the phone calls you mention are already a good example of important data that I didn’t include… maybe we need more storage space than I thought after all.
Why not all of it, or at least all the information we can easily find in a digital format? It still freaks me out every now and then, but we’ve passed the age where hard drives limited the amount of data you could possess. Of course you still would want some data to be more easily accessible and findable after a global catastrophe (so I feel like I’m not really answering the question ‘Which data do you need after a global catastrophe’), but that’s no reason to not store all of it.
What do you mean with all of it? Every phone call ever made?
Well, I was surprised to see Wikipedia being listed, so I was thinking of all text that can be found on the internet, or all (maybe except videos?) of the internet. But the phone calls you mention are already a good example of important data that I didn’t include… maybe we need more storage space than I thought after all.