I wanna buy a laminating machine and start laminating things.
It doesn't matter what things, really. I would laminate magazines. I would laminate posters. I would laminate torn pages from books; business cards; paper candy wrappers. I would print completely random posts and pages from the Internet and laminate the printouts. There would be no rhyme or reason, no pattern (except maybe an unconscious bias for cat pictures).
The vast majority of information nowadays is digital. Petabytes upon petabytes of creations, posts, and archives are dependent on something as fickle as an arrangement of electric currents. A single EMP blast in a Chinese data center could cause an event that would dwarf a hundred Alexandrias. Even without such extremes, there already is such an ongoing thing as "link rot" - links no longer going anywhere because their original destination no longer exists or was moved elsewhere. Physical data is not safe either: paper rots, metal rusts, stone crumbles - but, at least, plastic takes much longer to decay.
Why such random things? Why not my favorite books or frames from important films? Because libraries and archival projects do that already, way better than I ever would; but I doubt any of them would spend their shelf space on a bunch of fast food restaurant receipts or a dril screenshot.
One of the more important archaeological sites in Egypt is a literal ancient garbage dump, with only 10% if its texts being literature; the rest is literal discarded paperwork (well, papyruswork), like leases, sales, wills, private notes, horoscopes... Such insight into the life of your average Egyptian in a way no "proper" library could ever provide, and it's only been preserved on accident by being buried under mounds of trash.
Is this ambition of mine ecologically sound? Doubt it. I'd literally be multiplying garbage that would stay on this planet tor untold aeons.
Even so...
I wanna buy a laminating machine and start laminating things.
