Equation 29 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
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Why the gap has a plausible economic logic even without a direct measurement. The pattern this scenario extrapolates already has a precedent in the print history above: the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue exists precisely because curated, verifiable bibliographic records of exactly what was printed, by whom, and when became valuable enough to sustain a centuries-long cataloguing effort once print made the underlying universe of texts too large to track informally [ 6 ] . A world in which -grade transmission is verifiably scarcer than -grade transmission is a world with the same economic shape: verification becomes a paid service precisely because it is no longer the default.
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