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I've been thinking for a while how fragile computers are, from the software down to the hardware. I've been wondering if maybe it would be better to keep some t
by maksimur 3y ago
I've been thinking for a while how fragile computers are, from the software down to the hardware. I've been wondering if maybe it would be better to keep some things on paper, but paper doesn't last long too, and if it does, then you have the ink to think about. This drives me crazy sometimes.
- rocqua 3y agoComputers are fragile, but they are copyable. Quite easily and exactly copieable. Consider how books written 1000 years ago still survive today. They were diligently copied. Now compare the effort (and accuracy) of such book copying to computer copying. Next Consider error correction and error detection that is trivially built in to digital data. Nothing physical is permanent, but with just a little upkeep, information can live indefinitely.