Comprehensive data gathering would tend to serve a totalitarian state. Maybe as a compromise position we make sure we have perfect records only of the state functionaries.
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well maybe collection, storage, and analytic costs are large and substantial probably not worth it without a state buyer
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This raises a fascinating question : just how much could a future historian learn about our society from the databases which have been accumulated. Imagine future Edward Gibbon trying to explain the Fall of America but his primary source is a dump of Facebook's database.
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has anyone done sci fi indiana jones: digital archaeologist?
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the opening scene of Fire Upon the Deep is the closest example I can think of off the top of my head
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hmm still haven't read any vinge should fix that
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wow apart from when you set your house on fire that might be the best post of yours i've seen shoulda gone viral but nobody cares about pyramids anymore i guess
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I'm super proud of it 
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