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Feature suggestion: Thanatosensitivity function
This may sound far-fetched at the moment, but I'd want to put a feature suggestion which is all about thanatosensitivity function.
If a user with Trello account with a few boards as sole admin/member, depending upon their choice, their boards, instead of getting purged under inactivity policies or so on, can be archived into cold storage areas, particularly if the user or content in question would likely be of historical significance in the near and far future.
According to this 2020 FastCompany article there is a utilitarian case supporting such functions.
But if the past is any indication, our online archives might not survive long enough to provide the historical context necessary to allow future historians to authenticate digital artifacts of our present era. Currently the historical integrity of our online cultural spaces is atrocious. Culturally important websites disappear, blog archives break, social media sites reset, online services shut down, and comments sections that include historically valuable reactions to events vanish without warning.
Today much of the historical context of our recent digital history is held together tenuously by volunteer archivists and the nonprofit Internet Archive, although increasingly universities and libraries are joining the effort. Without the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, for example, we would have almost no record of the early web. Yet even with the Wayback Machine’s wide reach, many sites and social media posts have slipped through the cracks, leaving potential blind spots where synthetic media can attempt to fill in the blanks.
If these weaknesses in our digital archives persist into the future, it’s possible that forgers will soon attempt to generate new historical context using AI tools, thereby justifying falsified digital artifacts.
Let’s say it’s 2045. Online, you encounter a video supposedly from the year 2001 of then-President George W. Bush meeting with Osama bin Laden. Along with it, you see screenshots of news websites at the time the video purportedly debuted. There are dozens of news articles written perfectly in the voices of their authors discussing it (by an improved GPT-3-style algorithm). Heck, there’s even a vintage CBS Evening News segment with Dan Rather in which he discusses the video. (It wasn’t even a secret back then!)
Trained historians fact-checking the video can point out that not one of those articles appears in the archives of the news sites mentioned, that CBS officials deny the segment ever existed, and that it’s unlikely Bush would have agreed to meet with bin Laden at that time. Of course, the person presenting the evidence claims those records were deleted to cover up the event. And let’s say that enough pages are missing in online archives that it appears plausible that some of the articles may have existed.
Ultimately I felt that it would operate on a case-by-case basis when considering other factors. Just as a perspective these storage technologies might help make such function more easily achievable in terms of scalability.
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Plant-based_digital_data_storage