Daioh Temple's "Prayer for Lost Information"

[Taro Toporific]

Via the tpc
If a hard drive crashes
alone in the forest,
does it make a sound?
Prayer for Lost Information
Enigma Editor, dtrull@parascope.com, '97
....Does anyone ever stop to think whether it's right to cast information so callously into oblivion? Where is there any decency and compassion to be found in all this senseless destruction of human data?
These are the unsettling spiritual questions being raised by a Buddhist priest in Japan, who believes computer users should pay proper respects to their dearly departed info. Shokyu Ishiko, chief priest at Kyoto's 400-year-old Daioh Temple, says that our technology-driven culture has created a "spiritual void" ...