2021-07-01
At 1 point i was working on a novel set during Katrina and I found this phenomenon very alarming: a majority of links even in official documents led to dead websites or no longer hosted content. It's actually pretty alarming that's less than 2 decades ago https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently
Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Tweets: @lanceulanoff , @ethanz , @heghoulian , @d...