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| Koan 1: It's All Just Bits | Your computer successfully creates the illusion that it contains photographs, letters, songs, and movies. |
| Koan 1: It's All Just Bits | All it really contains is bits, lots of them, patterned in ways you can’t see. |
| Koan 2: Perfection is Normal | To err is human. |
| Koan 2: Perfection is Normal | If you email a photograph to a friend, the friend won’t receive a fuzzier version than the original. |
| Koan 3: There Is Want in the Midst of Plenty | It something can't be found online - and quickly - it's just as if it didn't exist at all. |
| Koan 3: There Is Want in the Midst of Plenty | The information explosion means, paradoxically, the loss of information that is not online. |
| Koan 4: Processing Is Power | Buyers of personal comput- ers know that a machine that seems fast today will seem slow in a year or two. |
| Koan 4: Processing Is Power | Computers become twice as fast every couple of years. (Moore's Law) |
| Koan 5: More of the Same Can Be a Whole New Thing | When something grows exponentially, for a long time it may seem not to be changing at all. |
| Koan 5: More of the Same Can Be a Whole New Thing | Why epidemics at first go unnoticed |
| Koan 6: Nothing Goes Away | Once data gets out, there is no getting it back. |
| Koan 6: Nothing Goes Away | The data will all be kept forever, unless there are policies to get rid of it. |
| Koan 7: Bits Move Faster Than Thought | In the bits world, in which messages flow instantaneously, it sometimes seems that distance doesn’t matter at all. |
| Koan 7: Bits Move Faster Than Thought | The instantaneous communication of massive amounts of information has created the misimpression that there is a place called “Cyberspace.” |
