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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Cyberpunk meets Tron. I love it. :)
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... meets Constantine, too, perhaps.
As an extension of the idea, if the shaman goes deep enough, through the layers and layers, they can go back in time, discovering other lost knowledge- books destroyed in book burnings, the Library of Alexandria or the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The other issue is if people who want to keep their secrets secret know that data shamans can find deleted data, how would they do so? They'd need a secure, vault-like recycling bin for receiving sanctioned material, but which keeps the file "alive" so that it never crosses over.
What happens to files which are copied, shared, widely-distributed, edited or corrupted would also be a problem to consider.