真理的衰变

We’re surrounded by decaying media of the past. But we’re also inventing new technologies: ever more advanced systems that offer up new and once unimaginable ways of preserving in- formation. Higher and higher resolution video and audio, increasingly portable devices, and dirt cheap storage. Even if you left your iPhone Voice Memos app running day and night for al- most a decade, the resulting file could in theory be stored on perhaps a ten-terabyte external hard drive, setting you back a mere $300. Entropy offers no hope of salvation for me- dia, however. Benign neglect doesn’t work for digital artifacts. …