Pathologies / Challenges of the Interactive Word Object (cont.)

• Who owns the words? (cont.)

• • Train wrecks have already occurred
  • • Kindle 1984 remote deletion

• How do you preserve the interactive word object?

• • Old NASA tapes can’t be decompressed
  • Portation may conflict with intellectual property
  • • No source code for “old” environments
    • File formats may be undocumented / proprietary