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The history of information is the history of excess. From paper to bits, the surplus generated from the storm of production reveals how machines are locked in an endless and excessive transfer of information.

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In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler traces the increase in the quantity of media to the rise of the computer. The computer produces surplus by at once manufacturing information-commodities faster than they assimilate, while abandoning them faster than they decay.