we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop
The mythical grey goo scenario was always so much more interesting in theory (haywire nanomachines turning everything into more nanomachines) than it turned out to be in practice (uncanny valley tiddies and reams of garbage text just clogging up everything).
I was exposed to such horrendous machine slop in recent days of such epic proportions that dwarfed the wide Sargasso Sea. My planet is burning down from unstaffed data centers straining countless power grids so that nobody in particular can have this:
I love the ones where they set the resolution too high (so you get repetition as different parts of the image don't "see" each other), as they demonstrate so clearly that the creator isn't even even looking at their outputs.
I think 4 of us could replicate and mirror that whole Comedy Central library on off the shelf NAS hardware in an hour or so.
It's absurd I have 10TB in my house, and that's not a lot!
So.. thepiratebay is looking all cute again..
Late shows stop getting seeded fairly quickly. It can be hard to download one that's even a few months old nvm 10 to 15 years old. There is a torrent of the complete Colbert Report but it's nearly 500GB and only handful of people are left seeding it. Daily show not so lucky.
My headcanon was that only misinterpreted fragments of 21st century history survived the Eugenics Wars and WW3. Although the argument that it was character foreshadowing definitely deserves a No-Prize…
Your iPhone has 100,000x the processing power of the computer that guided the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Yet, man is baffled at the challenge of keeping the MTV News archives online.
Puzzling...
Just saying, the future is simultaneously fascinating and screwed up. We can fit terabytes of data on a card smaller than a postage stamp, but we also want to roll scientific advancements back to the age of the Black Death.
