The Great Arch of Digitalization
Central question
What happens when more of civilization becomes mediated by software memory?
The Great Arch of Digitalization is the long, uneven movement of public and private life into software-mediated form. It is not the story of any single technology — it is the story of what happens once enough of civilization is held in databases, indexes, queues, and logs.
This series tracks the consequences: how memory changes when records become queries, how institutions change when their procedures become code, and how software inherits responsibilities it was never designed to hold.
Entries will arrive as essays and shorter notes. The series stays open as long as the question is still useful.
Reading path
- The Great Arch of Digitalization
- Website decay and digital ruins
- Software as institutional memory
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