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Echoes of Eco in His Library

• solarist 3y ago
  "We have books made 500 years ago that look freshly printed, but we don't know how long electronic formats will survive. Today's computers are not able to read prehistoric floppy disks. All that is said is recorded, and knowing it is recorded, we don't feel any more the need to remember it"
  • lostmsu 3y ago
    Or, you know, you can move data around in a similar way you move books around.
    • coldtea 3y ago
      And how is that working out for us?
• deleted 3y ago
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• coldtea 3y ago
  Eco had made fun of the idiotic tendency of journalists to title articles about him with some pun on "echo".