In 2009, Barack Obama's face on the screen in the Caribbean Sea was as sharply defined as it was at the U.S. Capitol, and some people on the pool deck slathered on sunscreen while others planned shore excursions.
As an object, the Constitution has more in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls than with what we now think of as writing: pixels floating on a screen, words suspended in a digital cloud, bubbles of text.