R111 introduction

the transformation from digital information to analog matter

THE WORLD IS FLAT AND HAS AN END

1666, at the age of 20, gottfried leibniz published the book "dissertatio de arte
combinatoria".

in this work he aimed to reduce all reasoning and discovery to a combination of basic
elements such as numbers, letters, sounds and colours. he then discovered the binary
system, the foundation of the digital universe. 1 stood for god and 0 for the void.

1999, somewhere in america, a lump of coal is burned every time a book is ordered
online.

it takes about 1 pound of coal to create, package, store and move 2 megabytes of
data, which is the equivalent of downloading 2 minutes of music from the internet.

futurists have been promising us information highways, not unit trains loaded with
coal. fiber-optic cables, not 600-kilovolt power lines. we're going to get both. all our
fossil memory burns in order to fuel the digital fire. as this fossil ancient memory is
erased, infossil new memory is currently being written.

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