“O, ingenious Theuth! Memory is a great gift, and it can be supported by the only continuos practice. Those, who learned writing will become forgetfulness, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.” (Postman, Technopoly 4–5; Umberto Eco)
One of distinctive characteristics of ancient texts was a crypto meaning. Written language was a product of creative and intellectual minority. It is not infrequent to create a limited social structure based on the specific writing system. The very first kings and priests were using it a lot.
But the value of cryptography was corrected in the course of time. Nowadays it is illustrated by popularization of open source standards for transferring, codification and storing of data. The actual social institutions of power have to use information security solutions, which operational principles are open to every educated person. It looks inconsistent with the core task of security but the Open Information Society is a result of the process of unconditional data disclosure.
Widespread use of devices and their artificial memory can be considered as extremely represented mass social reality. Natural daylight time became less significant as time reference for synchronization with the community, then time represented in numbers by automatic devices. Apart from collective timing, simplifying manipulation of masses, even at the level of simple logistics, people receive general frames of thinking and sources of information. We begin to know the same from the same sources, our mental sphere loses divisions.
On one side it announces a new era of total digital accessibility, installing its first infrastructure elements over ruins of paper hypocrisy caused by limited knowledge accessibility. It is expected that burning of books, as much as any other ritual, will take some time but we can see the results - the value of an original authorship is not so critical as applicative data filter. It is become very hard to know something different from the others' conversance. But we'll try our best with an opinionated way.