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Seems like we should make something that this that could last for a thousand years. And then house them throughout the world in case of disaster or make them s
by theklub 11y ago
Seems like we should make something that this that could last for a thousand years. And then house them throughout the world in case of disaster or make them so cheap that everyone could afford to buy one as a novelty.
- dublinben 11y agoIt would be easier/cheaper to print out physical copies of the same resources and place them in archives around the world.
- NSAID 11y agoPerhaps not. Thinking about other comments referencing Wikipedia: "This may be the first attempt to print Wikipedia to succeed in the sense that all of Wikipedia has been formatted as printable pdf files and made available for individual printing. The task has taken 3 years, and the upload process took 24 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes. It was completed 12 July 2015. PediaPress had attempted to raise money for a full Wikipedia print out on Indiegogo in 2014, but the project was pulled. Michael estimates that the printing costs of a full printout are around $500,000." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Wikipedia
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAssuming you can get this 1000-years-proof Wikipedia laptop down to $50 a piece, that's still 1 Wikipedia printout per 10 000 people buying the laptop. If people were buying that machine as much as they're buying smartphones, that would be equal to having a printed copy of Wikipedia in every city in the world.
- roywiggins 11y agoNot exactly cheap, but designed to be durable and require only a decent microscope to read: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/ http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/