Today, high-speed printers still use the Selectric as the minimum standard for correspondence, or letter quality, output. The Selectric is out of production, and IBM no longer supplies service or parts. But art curators assembled for the Variable Media Initiative were all ears. Led by assistant curator Jon Ippolito, this gathering of prominent art archivists is trying to create a way to preserve works created in the digital age. The Dead Media List, says Sterling, is merely a first step to fending off that horrifying vision.
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