on the nature of "blogs"...

Right now, our computers are touching, kind of. I typed into my computer and then sent the information through the telephone wires above the street, presumably to some box, owned by the company that hosts "blogger" and no doubt many others, where it was stored to be accessed by anyone who happen to type in the appropriate code to view this particular blog, which means that as you read this now, you too are (or were) connected to that storage box. What are these boxes, how many of them are there? Will there one day be fields of them, filled with the written history of people's opinions of the 21st century? Or maybe we'll store them vertically, underground. An elevator shaft of hard-drives, storing meticulously every word written by anyone with the most basic computer skills, in perpetuity. Or maybe we'll erase some, save space, after a time limit. Keep us relevent. Every hundred years, maybe less. Or maybe someone will decide, maybe it'll cost money to store information, or maybe, just maybe, everything and more, at the break neck speed of 6 billion people typing away at keyboards, all of it, stored in some new smaller hard-drive. Catalouged by date, place, and genre. Millions of opinions. Millions of individual opinions. And so, looking at one of these boxes, hundreds of years from now, having known nothing of the time before your own life, what could be learned?