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Love to learn what biblio scholars think of the digital age. It strikes me that though we have mastered highly persistent and physically robust methods of data
by malchow 11y ago
Love to learn what biblio scholars think of the digital age. It strikes me that though we have mastered highly persistent and physically robust methods of data storage, the machine languages we actually consume and transact in shift so rapidly. . . digital data strikes me as actually far, far more delicate and ephemeral than ink on paper.
- jmenn 11y agoYou may be interested in Matthew Kirschenbaum's work on the literary history of word processing and, well, archiving software. He gave a talk, "Software, It's a Thing," at a conference at the Library of Congress in 2014: https://medium.com/@mkirschenbaum/software-its-a-thing-a550448d0ed3 https://medium.com/@mkirschenbaum/software-its-a-thing-a5504...