But this is just a property of acceleration. If languages had started to change at the same speed as file formats have, or we had started to miniaturize in othe

But this is just a property of acceleration. If languages had started to change at the same speed as file formats have, or we had started to miniaturize in other ways, those millenia old letters might no longer have been usable either. It's definitely worth being conscious of the value of interpreted artifacts, but this is a continuation of a very old tension.