December 11. How Eco and Carrière lament, gleefully, in 2009, that the floppy disk became obsolete, and then everybody believed the CD would be the eternal storage medium, and then that was replaced by the DVD, and even the DVD, they suspect, won’t last forever. Fifteen years later, and storage has turned abstract, the question what medium something is stored on does not make sense anymore. And maybe, in the future, everything will be woven into big language models, and we ask them to reproduce something for us, on the fly and precise to the last comma, but we don’t know how they do it.