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The Internet's absence of meaning is a feature
Paul Ford mounts a defense of the Internets absence of meaning
The most meaningful experiences I have, the experiences that give me the greatest insight into the operation of culture over timesomething over which historians used to hold a monopolyare the results of database queries. I go in, I search for a term, I click some links, and the resulting stream of options is not even a narrative, just a bag of odds and ends. Then I begin a gentle pawing-through. What I like most is to skim through things that were intended to be transient. The ads, the newsy bits from beekeeping journals, the announcements of 1940s automobiles. You could call me an ephemeralist.
Life is ephemeral, and so is the Internet. But the internet has advantages
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