Great literature has always been interactive. This memory-only attitude considers the past a closed area, inaccessible to data input. Things only get going once media are falsely hooked up. Only misconnections can produce sparks. Old media should be treated as RAM and accessed at random.
Data processing is unthinkable without the use of old media.
They supply the materials to be processed. Computer peripherals are meant to absorb this material. There's a whole world waiting to be scanned. Only when the computer world has liberated itself of all its peripheral equipment, and the central processing unit functions autonomously, will the status of old media ever change. Only then will the computer create an intractable data world in which the human archive has been fully assimilated.