[Sarcazmo]

” The move to digital everything introduced a fragility to the whole that we are only now discovering.”

I don’t think its fragile at all. I think it is incredibly robust.

It’s just that the cookie don’t crumble in our favor too often. Imagine that.

[GOPJ]

This leads to an astonishing realization. It is easier to dig up an article written in the 1920s or 1930s, or the 1880s for that matter, than anything posted online after 1995. In practice, the internet is not forever. It is temporary, gauzy, ephemeral, changing, and forever replacing the old with the new. This means that digital technology enables the constant replacing of one reality for another, which is amazing.

There are people paid to make things disappear ... that's a big part of the problem.

[cgbg]

NSA can hack anything—and emulate foreign hackers.

Good luck figuring out what is going on in that world.