I mean check out that 3000 year old smelting furnace. Not only does it work as a piece of aesthetically intriguing sculpture, it probably still works as a blast

I mean check out that 3000 year old smelting furnace. Not only does it work as a piece of aesthetically intriguing sculpture, it probably still works as a blast furnace! I think about this a lot actually. When ancients built, they had to built for survival, so the focus, care and attention was exponentially multiplied. The result is of course things that were implicitly designed to last for generations. It must be an amazing feeling to be an archeologist at the moment of new discovery. You suddenly enjoy a serendipitous connection with a human being who has been dead for ages. But is suddenly memorable again, as if reborn. I think that human connection is the seed of "psychohistory". What message or wisdom can we wish to convey to our Future Selves?