Resumen
The Radio Age, the Aviation Age, the Atomic Age, the Space Age, all of these so called "ages" are history. Soon much-trumpeted "Information Age" will have that same archaic ring. The Information Age has accomplished great work during its span on the historical stage, dissolving jobs, transforming industries, frenetically building and destroying great fortunes. Computers have revolutionized the working lives of doctors and artists and clerks, generals and engineers, and politicians. It's delightful to look back and realize how little harm has been done by the transformation tide of computers. There are few archives for computer-generated texts, programs, computer art, or computer-generated cultural activity of any kind. Almost every manifestation of what is called as "new media" would be better described as "temporary media." Computers swallow whatever they can touch, and everything they swallow is forced to become as unstable as they are. Everything done by, through, or with a computer is desperately vulnerable.