Computer Files Are Going Extinct
2020-02-10
Perhaps this is the archivist in me, but this process of creating files and flinging them into an unsorted pot and then searching or hoping that the newest one is the one we want gives me the collywobbles. It seems like a rejection of our past work, to just sling all the files into a heap, immediately devaluing them as soon as something newer comes along.
— Computer Files Are Going Extinct, Simon Pitt in OneZero