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:“ | :“''[[Confidential Information - Confi Provision|Confidential Information]]" means [[Any and all|all and any]] information disclosed by either Party to the other Party, [[whether]] in writing or other [[tangible]] form, in any way relating or pertaining to the disclosing party...''” | ||
“[[Tangible]]”, so the internets tell us, means “perceptible by touch”. Now the ''[[substrate]]'' in which writing was traditionally embedded — paper — is assuredly [[tangible]]. But, unless your writing is braille, or so expensively embossed that one can detect the letters when one brushes one’s fingers over the onionskin, ''writing'' is not [[tangible]]. Certainly not when, as is common in these dark modern times, writing is not embedded in a physical [[substrate]] at all, but represented by the orientation of millions of liquid crystals between perpendicular polarising elements<ref>Thanks, internet.</ref> on an LED display. Writing is not tangible at all. Information isn't tangible. It is an abstract concatenation of binary values. The digital explosion in which we live, love abnd thrive dates back to the point, in the 18th Century, when Monsieur [[Jacquard loom|Jacquard]] figured out how to perform that exact abstraction. | “[[Tangible]]”, so the internets tell us, means “perceptible by touch”. Now the ''[[substrate]]'' in which writing was traditionally embedded — paper — is assuredly [[tangible]]. But, unless your writing is braille, or so expensively embossed that one can detect the letters when one brushes one’s fingers over the onionskin, ''writing'' is not [[tangible]]. Certainly not when, as is common in these dark modern times, writing is not embedded in a physical [[substrate]] at all, but represented by the orientation of millions of liquid crystals between perpendicular polarising elements<ref>Thanks, internet.</ref> on an LED display. Writing is not tangible at all. Information isn't tangible. It is an abstract concatenation of binary values. The digital explosion in which we live, love abnd thrive dates back to the point, in the 18th Century, when Monsieur [[Jacquard loom|Jacquard]] figured out how to perform that exact abstraction. | ||