The loss of knowledge, due to
intentional destruction or overlooking, often occurs when information
technologies shift and not everything can ‘make the leap,’ for example, from
books to the Internet or from an oral/spoken culture to a primarily printed
one. In addition, knowledge can be lost by mere obscurity: just as a book and
its contents can be lost to the world by simply never being opened, so too can
the content of a web page be lost if it is never accessed (Burke). The sheer
vastness of the Internet--millions of pages uploaded daily--means that a substantial
fraction of its material is abandoned in the clutter.
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