Energy Imbalance Of Importing And Exporting Information

In programming I've noticed that it always takes more work to load than save. Exporting information is easy but re-loading it takes care and attention.

I expect that there is some sort of real-world analogy. Anything, just a stone on the floor, could be seen as emitting information, and obviously studying the stone can take a lot of work, but just perceiving the stone at all takes more energy than the stone uses to emit its existence.

However, a carefully developed export of information could take longer and be more complicated than taking in that same information, so perhaps there is equivalence in energy between exporting and importing information.

Mark Sheeky, 25 August 2020