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some kind of universal decoder that way?

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Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist, Trent Horn.

On Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology, but on Friday, we talk about

whatever I want to talk about.

And today I want to talk about something called digital obsolescence, digital information

loss, digital dark ages.

It goes by a lot of different names, but the basic idea is that when we save information

electronically, it can be very easy for that information to be lost, to not be preserved.

That was something we didn't have to worry about for a long time because, I mean, if you

think about it, though, throughout history, a lot of information has been lost based on

the medium that it was stored on, right?

So the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament, for example, were written on papyri, papyris.

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