"He talks about how much digital information he's captured, tells us never to delete anything" - depression era mentallity meets the electronic age. In this paradigm our children and grand children, after we are gone, will be going through our databases saying, "Why did they save this Twitter message about brushing their teeth"? shortly before they scrap the whole thing. Just because we can save stuff doesn't mean we need to. The old piece of string isn't going to get used, and neither is the Twitter message.