This is very cool. The Aaron Swartz piece is powerful.

I just came from a funeral. We all leave digital footprints, some more than others and some more intentionally than others. But it is still so transient relative to the longevity of the human race.

We have things like clock of the long now or whatever, but we really don’t have much that will stand as physical documentation of individuals. And the Terracotta Army is a really interesting analog to something like everyone having their own homepage memorialized forever.

What will have a longer lifespan: the archive.org data set or the Terracotta Army?