ADRIENNE LAFRANCE, The Atlantic magazine columnist covering technology, wrote about how saved data in internet was very susceptible to lost. One of them was the website. She called as phantasmagoria. A refraction between reality and fantasy. Became reality when someone thought million of text to video in a website was a reality, whereas no more than lines of code compiled by browser machine.
The information based on digital data has many advantages indeed. For example, million of books doesn’t rule out the possibility to read just by human, but also by machine. Not only read but machine can sort and analyze that data. It can spread easily. Without doubled the paper, ink, and production cost. But there was exception. If the data lost, then it will be lost forever.
“If a Pulitzer-finalist 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web,” said Lafrance. “Anything can.”