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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
If we lose electricity catastrophically, we'll have a lot more to worry about than accessing stored information. Food, for example.
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Very true, but eventually someone might want to read
Battlefield Earth.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Worse, it depends on a decoding tool! Writing as soon as it is seen by someone who can decipher it, is understood. Personally I don't know what the heck with those ones an zeros. They seem to reinterpret them every once in a while.
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Yah, we have internalized the tools for deciphering the
written word, but even so, we sometimes need a
Rosetta Stone and an extremely clever linguist.
