The materialisation of (immaterial) information
The materialisation of (immaterial) information
Immaterial information has been materialised in the analogue world since the beginning of humanity, or at least since the point at which humans started drawing on cave walls and speaking to each other. When writing was invented, immaterial information processed by humans (their thoughts, feelings and wishes) was materialised in the analogue world, first in the form of tax or military records (which was why writing was invented anyway; see Chapter 9 on the materialisation of the state) or regulations (e.g. the Hammurabi code), and shortly thereafter in the form of books, in which epics and mythologies were written down.
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