Both my artistic and technical interests have resulted in a renewed appreciation for both niche contemporary documentation and the historical archives that they become.
And also a firm belief that there is nowhere near enough writing or drawing or pictures on any subject.
Think back 10-20 years ago, pick any mundate aspect of your life, fully inspect it in your mind and attempt to determine how it came to be exactly that way, what forces led to that, where did they go?
And document it.
I also feel that this is our only viable defense against the double impact of the generative AI onslaught i.e. the mass pollution, and the systematic DoS, of research sources.
I fear the impact of both will only worsen with each passing month.
Because of that, the best time to do that documentation was decades ago, the second best time was yesterday, the next best time is now.
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