Dec
4th
Tue
4th
2007
Is this the long-term historical irony of humanism – with its museums and libraries, its institutionalized nostalgia – that all these air conditioned warehouses and rural server farms don’t represent the indefinite continuation of the humanist project but, rather, that project’s future ecological demise?
— geoff manaugh on the power consumption of internet servers and the human propensity to archive everything, on bldblg.