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What about long-term preservation of knowledge. As far as I know a well-printed and maintained book lasts a long time. Are you confident that future archaeologi
by c1sc0 16y ago
What about long-term preservation of knowledge. As far as I know a well-printed and maintained book lasts a long time. Are you confident that future archaeologists will be able to read Kindle files 500 years in the future? 1000? 2000?
- StavrosK 16y agoWe can't get our shit together long enough to stop destroying the planet, do you think we'll care if people will be able to read our books 2000 years later?
- c1sc0 16y agoThat's what people were thinking around the year 1000 ... "OMFG the antichrist is coming, the end is near". Sure, civilizations disappear, maybe we'll manage to reduce world population to 1/100th of the current population. But disappear outright? I'm more confident in the resilience of homo sapiens than that. And given this, we owe it to future generations to at least think about these issues.
- StavrosK 16y agoMy point wasn't that we'll disappear, it was that there are more pressing concerns to address...
- c1sc0 16y agoStavrosk: that's what people were thinking around the year 1000 ... "OMFG the antichrist is coming, the end is near". Sure, civilizations disappear, maybe we'll manage to reduce world population to 1/100th of the current population. But disappear outright? I'm more confident in the resilience of homo sapiens than that.
- snitko 16y agoIf we start thinking about what archaeologists will be able to find after us, then I think we're probably done.