Who do you think is preserving human knowledge? I used that as an example because the people involved are long gone, and universities and governments no longer seem to care enough to preserve it.

One man's personal accumulation is another man's human knowledge.

There's a difference between data and knowledge. Knowledge is what's extracted and made intelligible from data. Production and storage of knowledge was so expensive and scarce that if you find something from Iraq 3000 years ago there's a high likelihood there'll be some knowledge in there.

Most stuff produced today is not only not knowledge, as of now the majority may not even be human. If you're living in the metaphorical Wall-E garbage mountain filtering and disposal are much more important skills than accumulation

Guess I was wrong.