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Bruce Sterling
Feb 17, 2011 6:13 PM

Dead Media Beat: disposable paper thumb drives

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/13271/art-lebedev-flashkus-disposable-paper-thumb-drive.html

*A great objective-correlative for the risky ephemerality of "backups."

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