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Digital Deterioration
Crunchkin claims to have discovered a phenomenon he has called "digital deterioration" to describe the lessening in quality of his photographic work which sits in digital memory over time: "You don't notice it at first, but upon repeated visits to photos posted at the Crunchkin website, I began to notice a sort of chipping away at some of the core details in my photographic work."

The significance of this "discovery" is immense, for it suggests that the same laws of entropy which apply to the physics of material bodies, also apply to the digital interface in a Personal Computer. "That is what I mean by 'deterioration'!" Crunchkin demurred.

"Look at it this in a theological light! The silicon substrate is 'fallible' owing to time and rearrangement at a microlevel heretofore unguessed."

No one actually declared computers infallible, still the idea was bandied about in '06 down in Pumpkinsville.

"Can't make a mistake from what I hear," Gully responds. "Once saved the data stays fresh, permanent, and then I heard him whisper 'eternal'." But deep down he new it was wrong to insinuate that digital data might be preserved forever." It is shocking to imagine that of all the material substrates in the world, the one that composes the computer memory, is not subject to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics as this citizen suggests.

"Granted the deterioration level is slower than ordinary deteriorants such as dust, worms, war, and overall physical chaos," revealed Crunchkin: "I mean "slower" in a relative sense. Which is not to say that it is inoculated from arhythmy. Stephen Wolfram's 'automata'. It could as it were 'pick up speed' there might be a pattern chaos that emerges in an exponential rather an arithmetic manner. In which case all data is at risk, pretty scary to folks who have got their lives wrapped up in the functioning of this new tool."