> Perversely, digital data that's abandoned degrades far more than analog data

On top of that, I've got 30,000+ digital photos, and I can never find the one that I'm looking for.

I have document-dumped myself.

That's a solvable problem, searching images is one of the things ML is already pretty good at.

I understand if giving Google your photos is a nonstarter, but have you tried putting them in Google Photos? You can search by face and by objects in the photo.

Thank you. I keep my photos out of the cloud, but it's helpful to know that this is an option.

Don't worry, we leave enough garbage for future archaeologists to dig through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden

different take: there wont be anything left from 1980 to 2000 era either as it will be burnt to ashes by the subsequent generations who could not accept what was said before they were born.

If the world is on fire 80 years from now, I kind of don't blame the survivors for deciding to hide all the dangerous learning from the time that nearly destroyed the world.

I don't agree with it but there's a possibility that particular fantasy/scifi scenario will come to pass. As a young person during the Cold War, I was not particularly enamored of technology due to the fear of nuclear destruction, the environmental destruction all around me, and the prevalence of suburbs.