1. As the artifacts themselves decay they take on a different quality to users.

2. Narratives and their carriers are increasingly code on media that are rapidly reaching a state
of obsolescence.

3. They acquire a patina of age that is perceived as desirable and beautiful.

4. In the digital realm separation of content and carrier has become the norm. We access
content on a phone, laptop, tablet, and make few distinctions between modes of access.

5. http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/system/files/Bit%20Rot_OPF_0.pdf
There aren’t yet songs about flawed digital photographs, but will there be?

6. Will the need to apply digital forensics to an author’s papers in an archive in order to rescue what we can off
obsolete media be a romanticized act akin to handling the crumbling, brittle pages of an old newspaper?

7. There are questions about what is the essence of a material that we need to collect and preserve.
We should consider how perceptions of decay in mass culture will influence the preservation of
digital materials.