Data Replication Quotes

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Data is fungible. You can make as many copies of it as you want.

Scalability is this idea of coming up with a blockchain that can scale much larger than existing chains essentially by processing transactions in parallel. And moving away from this paradigm where every single node on the network has to process every single transaction.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.