S. Hawking also commented something to the effect that he'd be surprised if humans lasted another hundred years, let alone a thousand. Also : the notion of "th

S. Hawking also commented something to the effect that he'd be surprised if humans lasted another hundred years, let alone a thousand. Also : the notion of "the tape getting erased" mentioned above reminds me strongly of William Burroughs' idea that ideas, memories, and other cultural / personal info-artifacts are dependent on [paraphrasing here] their being written to memetic tapes. which are liable to erasure, editing, degradation etc etc as social and psychological processes work.