I&#x27;d like to offer a contrary perspective.  I actually like the idea that some of our &quot;stuff&quot; ends up being ephemeral.  By accident or design.  I&#x27;m not really talking about burning the occasional Alexandrian Library, but the stuff that didn&#x27;t seem important enough for anyone to really care about.<p>And if something I made only exists on Soundcloud, I either don&#x27;t really care or I&#x27;m a bit stupid.<p>For most of our history nearly everything we thought, said and did was ephemeral.  Not recorded and then gone.  We&#x27;ve become pack-rats.  We&#x27;re at the beginning of technology civilization and already we have amassed so much that for any major genre of music there exists more content than a human being could consume in a lifetime.<p><i></i>And the vast majority of it is, at best, unremarkable.<i></i><p>I think we are wired for worrying about losing information because it used to be a disaster.  We used to be terrible at recording information.  We&#x27;re not anymore.  Oh boy are we not.  We&#x27;ll just make more.  Or we&#x27;ll repeat whatever process brought us there.<p>And if it can&#x27;t be repeated you now have the rarest and most unique gift:  a cultural experience that only exists in the memory of those present.<p>Imagine the storage space we as a civilization are going to use for storing worthless shit just in the next 100 years.