The Archive Problem
AI can process everything we've ever recorded. Should it?
In a Berlin basement, history waits in 16,000 garbage bags. Six hundred million fragments of paper, torn by desperate hands when the Wall fell in 1989. East Germany’s secret police had forty years of surveillance to destroy, but their shredders failed them.
Agents spent the regime’s final days tearing documents by hand, pieces as small as fingernails, wo…
