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Digitized data is replacing physical storage, and that makes it ephemeral. How would you read a DVD without a player? Can you rebuild the player, without specs
by angersock 11y ago
Digitized data is replacing physical storage, and that makes it ephemeral.
How would you read a DVD without a player? Can you rebuild the player, without specs? Can you rebuild the filesystem, or the decoding?
There is plenty of cheap energy that isn't oil--unfortunately, the exploitation of it without oil reserves to bootstrap with may prove impossible. That's the point being made here.
- Dylan16807 11y agoWith a microscope and a few pages of spec I think you can read text off a DVD. But yes that's not a disaster-friendly method.
- angersock 11y agoThat's not how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD
- eru 11y agoPerhaps Dylan might an electron-microscope?
- Dylan16807 11y agoThe pits are about a micrometer in length. That doesn't take an electron microscope.