Information SHOULD be loseable. Or at least lossy.

Otherwise change becomes more and more impossible. And without change: Entropy. Death.

Perhaps that means the rising of new civilizations, but perhaps it also means the ending of your (and my) life — and the lives of those we know (whether we care about them or not).

Or at least their freedoms. And, more frighteningly, their Freedom.

The thing that made the “New World” so fascinating, or at least useful, after all, was the whole possibility of starting over. Humans NEED the ability to start over.

And every day that ability is shrinking, getting more and more cramped and forced into smaller and smaller pockets.

-me.