Manually transferring data between computers by physical storage devices.

Cuba has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world because their internet is offline. El paquete (the package) is a weekly one terabyte collection of the hottest global entertainment (audiovisual media). Its curators veiled, the internet's milkman is alive.  

Every Sunday, Cubans bring their own hard drives (the memory vessel) to storefront distributors, participating in what has been the primary source of entertainment for millions since 2008. Original source of pirating is unknown but they’re one of the largest employers on the island coalescing the peer-to-peer suppliers. 

Our half-aware modality to search is a detached involvement with media, without distance or physical reference point. Distinct to the Cuban’s tactile and intentional fetching from a physical marketplace and later plugging into radios and monitors. We peruse a forrest of branched possibilities in real time, while they retrieve a weekly index. 

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