Originally Posted by CyberSEO

It can be dispersed. Switch on the lamp and it will glow (electricity converts into the light). Now switch it of. Where is the light? Right it's just got vanished (dispersed) in the Universe.

Another case is computer. When it powered its almost living because it able to store the information and "think" on it. When it lost the power, all it's memory getting erased. All those programs and data just got lost.