A multibillion-pound drive to “mainline AI into the veins” of the British economy is riddled with “phantom investments” and shaky accounting, a Guardian investigation has found.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@Thebratdragon

Weird that digital technology has still to come up with anything that matches paper and microfiche for long term preservation.

@davep

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@Thebratdragon @ReggieHere
I've been in IT for over 40 years (currently changing tack to batteries and heat pumps). I don't think it's built on obsolescence so much as information loss being an artifact of digitisation, especially when society crumbles.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@Thebratdragon

With the benefit of hindsight, I wonder whether the digital revolution was premised on replacing hard copy information, along with the archivists, registrars and librarians that managed it to create a new world in which human knowledge could be monopolised by tech corporates.

@davep

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@Thebratdragon @ReggieHere
@Lydie has a huge torrent archive by the way.

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@ReggieHere @Thebratdragon

I think that came later. The tech needed to exist first.

[lydie@tech.lgbt]

@davep @Thebratdragon @ReggieHere Sure do. Crowdfunded right here on Mastodon!
https://lydie.cc/data.html

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@davep

Suspect information supremacy had a lot to do with it too, and in many respects digital information is still seen as the perfect capitalist 'product' because it's relatively easy to lock behind paywalls and eminently reproducible.

@Thebratdragon

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@davep

For sure, this is all in the last fifty-odd years.

@Thebratdragon

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@Thebratdragon

Pirates are the Luddites of the 21st century

@davep

[kibcol1049@mstdn.social]

@davep @ReggieHere Make sure they stay dry stored in the bunker.

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@kibcol1049 🫡

@ReggieHere