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It's the function of historians to do the archeology and summarise for a broader audience Those summaries will be written in a similarly ephemeral format. A bo
by goatinaboat 6y ago
It's the function of historians to do the archeology and summarise for a broader audience
Those summaries will be written in a similarly ephemeral format. A book in a library can sit there and be rediscovered in a hundred years. A scroll or an engraving in a thousand. But we create things that have evaporated in a mere decade.
- Robotbeat 6y agoI’ve been thinking of backing up a few dozen megabytes of my most important files in like QR codes or maybe something simpler like dual-parity data matrix with instructions in plain text and printed out FORTRAN code. Printed on long lived (waterproof?) paper with a laserjet. Along with plain text printouts of text and pictures. Even thought of etching that on stainless plates or something. Could be scanned with a smartphone or even decoded by hand (include an ASCII lookup table).