Concept
Preservation institutions degrade slowly — archives and journals can run on inertia for decades with the loss mostly invisible until someone tries to use the form. Training institutions degrade within a generation — every cohort needs to be carried fresh, and once the producers of versatile experts stop producing, supply runs out within twenty or thirty years. Together with the capture asymmetry, this makes training the more time-sensitive function to defend even though preservation is what the institution rhetorically advertises.
Connections
- Defined in: Preservation vs. Training
- Discussed in: Ch 10 — Political Economy of Attention, Ch 8 — Preservation vs. Training
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