They say that on the Internet, nothing ever goes away. This is true, for popular content that’s endlessly shared and remixed. But this kind of viral candy is only the tip of a really big iceberg. Beneath the surface of memes and naked celebrities lurks endless petabytes of data too boring for immortality. Wedding pictures, college essays, home videos, old emails — most of our data is in this category, and it can be disturbingly ephemeral. One of the major lessons from physics is that thermodynamics hates your guts. Computer data is no exception. Flash memory loses its charge in under a...
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