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> We can't preserve bits like books. The only reason we have any copies of "books" (i.e. long written works) from the ancient world is that they were painstaki
by Thrymr 2y ago
> We can't preserve bits like books.
The only reason we have any copies of "books" (i.e. long written works) from the ancient world is that they were painstakingly copied over centuries from one medium to another, by hand for most of that time.
- kkfx 2y agoDefinitively right, above I intend we can't preserve bits simply collecting them in libraries of physical supports like we do with shelves full of books or folders of archived sheets. With bits there is no "original" and "copy", any copy is still "original", we do not loose information or introduce changes because of that.