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So, what of our walrus?

In a modern context, a “stored” population of walruses in a protected reserve is not “served” in any immediate sense. It is preserved for biodiversity metrics, for future generations’ right to see them, for ecosystem balance abstract, deferred, often contested services. The direct, visceral line is gone.

The journey from the walrus-as-larder to the data-byte-as-asset is the journey of human abstraction. We have built layers of mediation technological, economic, and digital between the act of putting away and the act of taking out. In doing so, we have transformed “storage” from the antechamber of service into a state of suspended animation, where the ultimate service is unknown, to others, or perhaps never to come at all. The word “stored” no longer carries the warm promise of a future meal; it carries the cool, ambiguous weight of pure, often alienated, potential. We have gained vast efficiencies and scales at the cost of that immediate, tangible certainty the certainty that what we keep, will, soon and surely, be of use.