"Every contact leaves a trace."

I would argue that the tendency to regard one image as correct and the other as deviant is to misapprehend the nature of computers as digital systems, and indeed allographic sign systems in general

effective preservation must rest in large measure on the cultivation of new social practices to attend our new media. These

critics and scholars of new media need to begin exhibiting critical habits that are more sensitive to the mature material conditions of new media. Here

there is no computation without data's representation in a corresponding physical substratum,

All media are bound to the materialities of their particular forms, materialities that materialize in the shape of intellectual property,

our current theories and points of reference for reckoning with electronic textuality were inadequate

Part of what enables the myth (or the meme) of MyLifeBits is the slippage between media convergence and total recall.

There is, in short, no simple way to know how many instances of a single file are residing in how many states, in how many different locations, at any given moment in the operating system.