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Make every bit count.

Neither high-speed nor high-bandwidth equal high quality, and being bombarded with media does not make us more informed.

Make every bit count.

Why? Because every bit costs energy. A small amount of energy, sure, but those small amounts add up. Once the gas runs out, every last scrap of energy becomes precious.

Make every bit count.

Language is a steady stream of information, and text is the purest form of language. The amount of information you can pack into, for example, 140 characters, is astonishing, the amount of text you can pack into, for example, 140 kilobytes, equally so.

Make every bit count.

Given time, Nature strips the fat from every system. Computer systems are no exception. If it doesn’t help an organism to survive in a given environment, it will disappear, become part of the fossil record.

Make every bit count.

Right now, we stand atop the mountain. We put batteries in our toothbrushes, we use industrial processes to manufacture toys that will be forgotten in a matter of days, added to the mountain. Crunch. But, though the mountain we have built is ugly, the view is incredible. Enjoy it while you can. Take in every detail. Draw a map.

Make every bit count.

A man climbs a hill, not a mountain of refuse but a hill of soil, anchored in place by a thousand trees He reaches the top, and meets what he has always met on this hilltop: a small stone shelter containing a giant disc, twelve feet in diameter. He takes a key from around his neck and slides it into the hole in the side of the structure. A simple control panel is revealed. One switch, one button. He flips the switch, and the sunlight collected by the solar panel on the roof of the structure and stored by the large battery inside flows into the computer within, breathing life into the delicate silicon organs. He hits the button, and the disc sends out a ping, a single bit of information. I am here.

Make every bit count.