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The Five Knowledge Storage Media
but because it is more a function of the world than the medium, we
will not address it right now. We will consider only the persistency
of knowledge with respect to its originally stored structure.
• Update frequency. How rapidly can knowledge stored in the medium
be modified, either intentionally or otherwise? This “updatability”
is generally a function of the physical nature of the medium, the
complexity of the knowledge stored in it, the input and output mech-
anisms, and the coding activity required to frame the knowledge in
the medium.
• Intentionality. How much the storage and modification of the knowl-
edge in the medium can be done deliberately (this does assume that
there is “deliberation” by some party in the ...