"The Rosetta Stone didn't survive thousands of years in the desert because of some intrinsic cultural value. It survived because it's made of stone. ... The fut

"The Rosetta Stone didn't survive thousands of years in the desert because of some intrinsic cultural value. It survived because it's made of stone. ... The future disagrees about what is and is not important, and why. That's the defining characteristic of the future. No one today cares what the Rosetta Stone actually says, yet it is more important to us (as the key to hieroglyphics) than it was to the society that made it." http://carlos.bueno.org/2008/08/save-web.html http://carlos.bueno.org/2008/08/save-web.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171104052354/http://carlos.bueno.org/2008/08/save-web.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171104052354/http://carlos.bue... (I am a bit amused to realise, after reviewing the Internet Archive snapshots, that this article has changed quite a bit over the years.)