Sure, but at least then your options are limited to existence or destruction, and you still have to have physical proximity to experience either. Digital repres

Sure, but at least then your options are limited to existence or destruction, and you still have to have physical proximity to experience either. Digital represents a third form-factor, "malformed", and physical proximity is no longer needed either to corrupt data, destroy it, or steal it (two of these three not necessarily being obvious to the owner).