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The oldest surviving tablets are stone tablets, so as a stone tablet marketing guy I'll have to say that clay is still relatively unproven technology. (A more h
by fulafel 5y ago
The oldest surviving tablets are stone tablets, so as a stone tablet marketing guy I'll have to say that clay is still relatively unproven technology. (A more hasty experimentalist might conclude that it is proven - to be less durable than stone)
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoAs a titanium engraving marketing guy, I'd argue that my technology is younger and even less proven than ceramics, but I'm going to bet it's more durable than engraving in stone.
- tiborsaas 5y agoThe technology is probably superior, but there's a conceptual flaw that is titanium being a valuable material. This results in a risk that data gets erased and the carrier material turned into jewellery, prosthetics or other funky stuff.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 5y agoClay tablets were often wiped and re-used. A lot of the ones we have preserved were preserved because the buildings used for storage burnt down, hardening the clay tablets and preserving the writings. In other words, clay tablets get re-purposed too.
- adrian_b 5y agoThe stone or ceramic tablets are fragile, so they can break. Bronze tablets will not break. Unlike stone or ceramic, they are slowly corroded, but we have well preserved bronze tablets which have survived at least 2200 years. A bronze tablet, or better a stainless steel sheet, can be engraved with text using a computer-controlled mill.