Embrace the Decay is the first online interactive work of the writer Bruce Sterling. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles consists of a simulated typewriter with which you can make a few lines of text which is then idealized into a sheet, ready to deteriorate in many ways, organic and futuristic. Once the decomposition of the text, it's back to the typewriter also working less and less, until his ideal final burial, while in a short video is covered by a mound of earth. A theme, that of the decay of the media particularly dear to the writer and subsequent invasiveness pc that in a very short span of time has made obsolete the mechanical technologies of writing. He, in fact, in addition to having published in '92 in tandem with Gibson's story 'The Difference Engine' centered on a future nineteenth century, had also founded one of the most interesting projects documentativi like that at the end of the nineties, the 'Dead Media Project ', (see Neural 13 ) which aimed to collect information on organic and digital mediums are no longer used and / or supported, and therefore at risk of extinction. Beyond the realization, a bit '' cumbersome 'itself, there remains the strong idea of ​​an archeology of the media, fundamental to presevarne history and data.