2022-11-24T00:20:25Z
All digital data segments are in principle machine-readable, the question is to what extent can the machine do anything meaningful with it. A CSV file, for example, is machine-readable such that it can be read into a spreadsheet program, but contains no embedded semantics beyond the fact that the lines signify rows in a grid, and the commas signify columns. In other words, it can be displayed, but the actual contents of the CSV are meaningless without some outside cue.
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