"Jason Scott is a founder of Archive Team,
a loose network of archivists and programmers that creates tools for
extracting data from services that are at risk of disappearing. Flickr
has given users options to export everything from the site; the Archive
Team is working on alternatives, just in case.
“The sad thing about the tech industry is they built everything on subsidized lies: ‘This is going to cost you nothing and you’re
going to get amazing things,’” Mr. Scott said. It’s not as easy to
imagine a future without Google as it might have been to imagine a
future without Zing, or even Yahoo. But it shouldn’t be hard.
“It’s
100 percent like Flickr,” Mr. Scott said. “Tech companies are still
selling a lot of very neophyte people a lot of problematic lies about
things that matter a lot to them.”"
