Fascinating article in the NY Times about the costs of data overload. We save things we don’t really need to save and we backup and archive things we shouldn’t have saved at all in the first place, and why? Because it’s invisible. It’s just all on that little box on our desk or somewhere “in the cloud” right? But there’s a cost. Duplicate copies of everything takes lots of resources to keep the server farms cool enough to function. And when you need to find something, you’ve kept so much that finding it becomes prohibitively expensive in time (or money for lawsuit discovery for companies). So the recommendation is to delete unless you’re sure you need something rather than saving what you’re not sure you won’t need. Sure. The discarders of the universe are always out to get us hoarders!
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