Digital fragility

Digital fragility refers to information being vulnerable to changeand decay versus analog data:Factors:1.Electricity dependent: electronics have to be supplied electricity.2.Hardware decay: bit flips, bit rot, electromagnetic charge decay,etc.3.Compression: a single bit flip in compressed file can ruin it.4.Reliance on pre-existing environment: files require specific software/hardware to interpret. Books vs CDs is a prime example.5.Transmission errors: protocol/hardware errors can easily corrupt digital data. Analog data is more resilient.6.Centralization: servers hosting data in single datacenter, lack of copies due copyright or various software limits(no backups).7.Cost of storage: online spaces limit age of files or require payment to store files indefinetely.8.Obscurity: digital data that lost its appeal(long tail data) or interest(cultural significance) will be easilydeleted, unlike books where inherent value of book allows it to survive.9.Mutability: data is easily updated and overwritten by newer data versions,which doesn't store older variants, losing content.