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I wonder how many people will add this book to their digital library in preparation for some cataclysmic event which necessitates rebooting society...

• njharman 13y ago
  > will add this book to their digital library Those who have little comprehension of what cataclysmic events do to digital storage.
  • userbinator 13y ago
    Modern digital storage, at least. Bits etched into stone tend to be a bit more durable.
    • noxxten 13y ago
      But that would be analog storage, technically.
      • Solarsail 13y ago
        If it's literal bits etched into stone, wouldn't it still be digital (the way sections of a disk platter having a particular polarity is digital)? Analog would be etching the resultant data in graphical form into the rock. I'm not sure what to call ASCII art carved into rock, tho.
      • judk 13y ago
        What kind of storage is binary technically? Are you thinking that the digits should be physically unconnected solid objects? That would be an unconventional definition, not the one used by computer scientists and engineers.