CHAPTER 10

Learning from the Classics

The Bubishi

Tracking the Legacy of the Bubishi

Before the widespread use of industrial technology applied to information—which started with the printing press, continues with modern digital channels, and allowed to quickly create identical copies of data packages (be it books, films, or files)—the biggest challenge related to the conservation of knowledge was how to avoid distorting the very same data that was being transferred. Human beings are keyed to applying mnemonic shortcuts to everything they see or hear in order to store it more easily. Over time, the accumulation of these necessary changes passed ...

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