Yeah, okay :D. What a lie. We have film for every Super Bowl, every World Cup, probably every 6 o'clock news since 1960. But who's seen it? Who goes back on old recorded video when there is a live feed? I've met none.
Who won the tenth Super Bowl? The first World Cup? Normal people don't know these things. First response is to google it. The computers remember, but nobody knows anything.
There is a huge difference Encylopedia Brittanica (or perhaps a downloaded Wikipedia) and this millions-of-cameras-recording-everything. With live coverage, nobody watches old tape. A set of EB is finite, open for static inspection, colocated with your living room. An ever-growing dataset of millions of camera feeds (colocated 3 states away) is, to the human brain, useless. The magnitude's far too large. Why write anything down if you can pull up the feed? Why record anything with a DVR/VCR when it's online? Why 'know' anything at all when the computer can tell you?
Yeah, okay :D. What a lie. We have film for every Super Bowl, every World Cup, probably every 6 o'clock news since 1960. But who's seen it? Who goes back on old recorded video when there is a live feed? I've met none.
Who won the tenth Super Bowl? The first World Cup? Normal people don't know these things. First response is to google it. The computers remember, but nobody knows anything.
There is a huge difference Encylopedia Brittanica (or perhaps a downloaded Wikipedia) and this millions-of-cameras-recording-everything. With live coverage, nobody watches old tape. A set of EB is finite, open for static inspection, colocated with your living room. An ever-growing dataset of millions of camera feeds (colocated 3 states away) is, to the human brain, useless. The magnitude's far too large. Why write anything down if you can pull up the feed? Why record anything with a DVR/VCR when it's online? Why 'know' anything at all when the computer can tell you?
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