I think the point is that you can’t know what you don’t know. They weren’t naive back then, they were ignorant and limited by the technology of the time.
We preserve stuff precisely because we don’t know how it might be useful in the future.
We have a name for things we know for sure won’t be useful in the future: Trash.
I agree in this case but this is what they thought at the dawn of computing, too and we lost a lot of history.
True but at the dawn of computing we were too naïve. We couldn’t imagine people would record everything.
I think the point is that you can’t know what you don’t know. They weren’t naive back then, they were ignorant and limited by the technology of the time.
We preserve stuff precisely because we don’t know how it might be useful in the future.
We have a name for things we know for sure won’t be useful in the future: Trash.