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We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

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139 points obscurette | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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analog31 ◴[04 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44465444[source]▶
Ironically, the technology that amazingly still works after 40 years is shown in front of a shelf full of books.
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1. paulryanrogers ◴[04 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44465750[source]▶
Books are fragile. Their pages often include acid in order to self destruct. For resilience we should be recording on clay tablets. /s
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2. analog31 ◴[04 Jul 25 16:14 UTC] No.44465767[source]▶
Oddly enough, I've read that the clay was originally re-usable, and the ones that are preserved were baked in accidental fires.

Kind of a weird opposite meaning of book-burning.