DIGITAL ETERNITY : "ETEWAF"

Stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt coined the acronym ETEWAF in an article in Wired Magazine on 27 December.
 
It expands to "Everything That Ever Was - Available Forever".
 
It refers to the power of digital recording and the online world to make anything, from any era, instantly available. He is concerned about the potentially adverse implications for creativity:
 
"ETEWAF  doesn't produce a new generation of artists - just an army of sated consumers. Why create anything new when there's a mountain of freshly excavated pop culture to recut, repurpose, and manipulate on your iMovie?"