Exactly - quite impressive. Our modern society has vastly better data, unimaginable completeness in scale, scope, detail, and accuracy. Yet we are consistentl

Exactly - quite impressive. Our modern society has vastly better data, unimaginable completeness in scale, scope, detail, and accuracy. Yet we are consistently making insanely worse decisions than the ones that returned 2000 years after the disaster. That hundred-generation perspective makes the Native American's 'Consider the Seventh Generation' ethos seem myopic. Worse yet is our society's obsession on quarterly profits and this month's competitive positioning — makes the attention span of a cloud of coked-up gnats seem positively sagacious >>And of course, people returned to the shoreline eventually, as people in tsunami zones around the world inevitably do and apparently always have done. "Knowledge of these giant events and their consequences seems to wane over the passage of time, a common occurrence throughout the Pacific region . . . Most of the hazard assessments for coastal northern Chile are based on historical data that goes back just a few centuries, but the fault system in the region runs on a much larger temporal scale. Data about ancient quakes and tsunamis like the one that reshaped society here 3,800 years ago could offer a longer-term perspective to hazard planners."