the loss of history and digital archives(summary)

Today, there is a lot of information produced by the world. Most of it has been lost throughout history and some has been recovered. Information that has been lost takes a large amount of money in order to be recovered. It is a shame that a lot of the information that the world produces isn't correctly saved and many times is lost. This compares to what happened at the library of Alexandria. I think that the American Government should invest money in a project like this. One that will record our present history so it could be used in the future. But, since it takes a lot of money and time to organize that project, what they need to do is make a plan on which information to store and which to throw away. This article talks about how there is only a few things that Congress has saved from the past. Many artifactures have been lost or misplaced throughout the yeats. The Library of Alexandria was destroyed and that caused a lot of information to be lost. Information that could be used today in order to learn about the past. If we want our future generations to learn about our present then we must learn how to save whats useful and whats not.