Store digitized writings, images, and sounds in databases and object repositories. Transmit electronic documents, voices, movies, and music, serially, through phone lines, coaxial cables, and satellite dishes. Reconstruct streams of bits at their point of arrival as hierarchies of interrelated digital objects. Clone information and entire directory trees at mirrored ftp sites. Many people find themselves navigating a vast information space of virtual objects.
Reality is relative and ever-changing.
We've been conditioned to think of data transmission and data storage as two different things. That sounds right. You store stuff in your box. You send stuff to other boxes over a wire connected to your box. Just as time and space are the same, so are communications and persistence.