Let's Save the Books
Cryptography is the replacement of the CODE SET of alphabets and numerals with other signs from the alphabet and numerals themselves, only replacing the order, frequency, and quantity of groupings systematically according to an algorithm to encrypt and decrypt, encode and decode intellectually, that is: to make illegible the correct and canonical way of writing within the grammatical and semantic norms agreed upon by civilization so that only a few who have the power to understand what was written, or encoded.
To read an information device on a modern technological support, a mechanical decoder with dedicated technology is needed, for example:
1) Groove record on vinyl or other support: a record player with a needle on the groove is needed within standards of size, rotations and perfect stabilization of the playback platform directly through the analog copy that reproduces the sound mechanically.
2) Magnetic tape: a medium on a very thin acetate film with microscopic fragments of ferromagnetic material that, to be reproduced, requires a transducer decoder with a system to compensate for fluctuations and noise through Fourier equations such as Dr. Dolby's, for example, and electronically reproduce sounds and images with start and end information of information packets called information frames, previously synchronized through an information encoding protocol, and a code set of analog data, and in the second stage are digitized in binary code format.
3) Compact Disc and Digital Video Disc: these are fully digital media that require software to decode, synchronize, and translate the information and metadata of the media to reproduce the information and monitor the quality standard through standard and information quality control software based on sample data standards within code set recovery protocols commercially adopted by international conventions for information exchange, such as CODASIL.
4) Pen Drives: These are storage devices based on RAM, EPRON, KPRON, KEPRON, and ROM memories, which are digital memory based on digital logic circuits with attached software and firmware for memory addressing management and digital access and storage administration. They use code sets for encoding and electronic data storage.
These devices depend on: dedicated hardware; dedicated software; data code sets; information exchange protocols for password-protected access and login for permission; and layers separating accessibility, including physical, electrical layers, digital software layers, and hardware layers such as those on the internet, for example, basic operating systems, and human interface layers such as language compilers, assemblers, and basic machine language interpreters.
Why do we have to preserve the physical paper medium called books?
The physical book is the only medium that requires only knowledge of the language and culture to retrieve information without depending on software and hardware compatible with the version in which it was recorded, without depending on electricity and technical operational knowledge to operate anything from a record player to a cell phone, a desktop computer, the operating system license, unlocking passwords and access logs.
The Bible only reached us because it was written, even if precariously, on papyrus or an animal skin support like parchment.
Human science distinguishes itself from the best animal intelligence because we created writing; without it, everything we learn would depend only on brain memory, but a book can record and store infinitely more than any most trained human memory, and it can be reproduced with the second greatest invention, which was the printing press with movable type.
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