The article starts with an asymmetric comparison of the survival of a single set of documents from 2,000 years ago and then lamenting the loss of some documents today. We don’t have all the songs 16 year olds wrote 2,000 years ago. But that is largely what was lost in the MySpace’s data loss. The truth is, we’ve lost the vast majority of what was created in every era and there is no reason to believe we are losing more today than 2,000 years ago or even 100 years ago.