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Until there is an EMP that blows away all those stored electrons - and backups. Books looks a lot better after that.
by peapicker 7y ago
Until there is an EMP that blows away all those stored electrons - and backups. Books looks a lot better after that.
- anchpop 7y agoThat seems less likely than, say, a house fire or a conventional bomb
- brewdad 7y agoYet a citywide EMP seems far more likely than the next Great Chicago Fire.
- falcolas 7y agoI had this discussion recently. Here’s the hat trick of digital over paper: an ebook can be unpacked and printed on paper! All of the contents are human readable - it’s mostly HTML and CSS - and can be re-encoded into an ebook with no loss of fidelity. It can also be easily read (see aforementioned HTML and CSS) without any difficulties, even in its encoded format on paper.
- AstralStorm 7y agoUnlike what common people believe, EMP won't damage magnetic storage media, and definitely won't touch optical media. Flash memory is vulnerable. You might have to replace microprocessors in all the connected devices though if the fuses don't work correctly.
- Kaiyou 7y agoAll books in existence can be stored on my harddrive, while they won't fit into my bag.