Die britische Nationalbibliothek hat begonnen, die gesamten Onlineinhalte des Landes abzuspeichern. Darunter sind Medienwebsites, aber auch frei zugängliche Facebook-Inhalte, die für über 200 Jahre gesichert werden.
All data collected during the Internet Census 2012 is available for download via BitTorrent. It is released into public domain so everybody can use it for any purpose. For an explanation of what this data is and how it was obtained, see Paper.
"Forty years ago we wrote the script of the internet. Thirty years ago we turned it on. We thought we were building a system to connect computers together. But we quickly learned that it's a system for connecting people.
"What's important about what these people are doing: They're beginning to learn how to communicate with species that are not us, but share a sensory environment. [They're figuring out] what it means to communicate with something that's not a person. I can't wait to see these experiments unfold.
"These interactions with other animals will teach us, ultimately, how we might interact with an alien from another world. I can hardly wait."