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Well planned obsolescence is definitely incentivized by the current economy, but in the grand scheme of things there's plenty of entropy to go around. Because
by dasil003 8y ago
Well planned obsolescence is definitely incentivized by the current economy, but in the grand scheme of things there's plenty of entropy to go around.
Because digital bits are easily preserved, it was a tempting fantasy that we could build perfect software cathedrals immune to the ravages of time. Of course what we found is that in the physical world, matter decays, but the laws of physics remain constant. In the digital world, the matter stays the same, but the environment decays.