The fragile future of human knowledgeWe like to believe we are living in the safest moment in human history for knowledge. But in Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge, engineer and global innovator Jack R. Bialik argues that this confidence may be precisely the problem. Digital storage feels permanent because it is invisible. The idea that “this time is different” because knowledge is digital is, Bialik suggests, a dangerous illusion. Digital knowledge, for all its abundance, is astonishingly brittle.