Why is it important to keep writing and printing books, (even nowadays) ?

Though it pretends to,
Internet does not safeguard knowledge by storing it.

Any given piece of information available now shall have disappeared
in 6 months or a year, sometimes forever.

Likewise, publishing companies only renew prints they deem commercially worth the effort,
while hoarding huge quantities of materials (under current international copyrights laws)
thereafter left to oblivion.

And matter of fact (and a fact of matter), our Netflix playlists use infinitely more webspace than the entire collection of humanity's knowledge,
meaning we direct most of our ressources towards something entirely different than knowledge.

Initiatives like gutenberg.org and wikipedia lead the fight against this very post-modern tendency but it feels like plugging the holes of the Titanic with soapbars, since we need to contend as well with the typically Orwellian counter-initiatives such as re-writing History based on contemporary fashions of sentiment and/or political agendas,
such as in the case of the woke movement, the creationist movement, the flat-earth movement,
etc, etc …

There lies the reason why physical book copies have always been,
as long as Humanity had a History,
the only and very best thing to pass down ‘knowledge’ down the generations.

Granted, it's not failproof either but nothing ever is
and besides, books do not disappear by themselves,
unlike web contents.

C.Lab
02/08/25