WHAT TIME DOES TO TEXT: Some thoughts about information decay

IMAGE: Some text fading into a nimbus and then mysterious darkness.

Lex:    Whether it takes minutes or millennia, eventually all text vanishes.

Linda:  (nodding) If you contemplate the 'lifespan' of an average text, it's sobering. 
        Only a few texts survive beyond the lifespan of their creators. 
        Most of what we write is essentially dead within hours or days.

Ron:    Interesting how we imagine texts as animate objects. 
        In fact, there is no life: only pixels on screens or words on paper.

Lis:    (shrugging her shoulders) Besides, aren't we already overloaded with information? 
        We are bombarded with trivia, but when it comes to valuable information how much 
        input do we actually receive?

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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some reflections about entropy, data loss, and unknowing.
KEYWORDS: information decay, text annihilation, semantic oblivion, epistemological vacuity

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2007 in Tokyo, Japan ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama (Japan)
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} 

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