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Vast accumulations of data, documents, records, and samples saturate our world: bulk collection of phone calls by the NSA and GCHQ; Google, Amazon or Facebookâ™s ambitions to collect and store all data or know every preference of every individual; Indiaâ™s monumental efforts to give everyone a number, and maybe an iris scan; hundreds of thousands of whole genome sequences; seed banks of all existing plants, and of course, the ancient and on-going ambitions to create universal libraries of books, or their surrogates.
From: Preface: The Total Archive https://limn.it/articles/preface-the-total-archive/
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