Re: Superdistribution development/release

Mark Baker (distobj@acm.org)
Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:30:08 -0500

At 05:43 PM 3/12/97 -0800, Rohit Khare wrote:
>What is the digital equivalent of fading parchment? More difficult, even
if we
>can do a fading bit, what's a fading PDF file? How can whole documents
decome
>less certain and less informative? (without marketeering jargon, that is :-)

What about MIT's Amorphous Computing project? Here's a handful of goop
containing all my knowledge on foobar - better keep it refrigerated, lest
it go moldy and forget something!

Back to analog. I think Dyson talked about that briefly in his last book,
in the context of what the Leviathan project was trying to be; zillions of
cooperative digital agents, looking awfully analog from not too far away.

MB

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