> In the pre-digital era, the norm was that content was preserved.

So pre-digital, no books, publications, photographic prints, scrolls, tablets, or clay etchings we lost to time?

> Thinking centuries ahead, reliable historical records basically stop around 2000-2020 or so.

That’s basically backwards.

We’re making a stink because people are identifying one needle in a giant pile of needles that they can’t find anymore.

And people point to thousand-year old physical writings that persist, because they persist, and don’t know what was lost because it was lost.

Digital records are far far more long-lived — in the statistical average — than physical.