In fact, passing long-term information is a real life concern. Long term nuclear waste warning messages, for instance, have spawned the field of "nuclear semiot

In fact, passing long-term information is a real life concern. Long term nuclear waste warning messages, for instance, have spawned the field of "nuclear semiotics". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... In which you end up with these types of proposals: > The linguist Thomas Sebeok was a member of the Bechtel working group. Building on earlier suggestions made by Alvin Weinberg and Arsen Darnay he proposed the creation of an atomic priesthood, a panel of experts where members would be replaced through nominations by a council. Similar to the Catholic church — which has preserved and authorized its message for almost 2,000 years — the atomic priesthood would have to preserve the knowledge about locations and dangers of radioactive waste by creating rituals and myths. The priesthood would indicate off-limits areas and the consequences of disobedience Meanwhile, there's Github's Archive Program which as this nice tidbit on it's roadmap: > The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser. https://archiveprogram.github.com/approach/ https://archiveprogram.github.com/approach/ Which sounds nice. But also unrealistic since technology alone isn't enough to ensure longevity. Embedding the longevity of data into culture could also involve founding a "digital priesthood" analoguous to Sebeok's "atomic priesthood". A group of people who safeguard and pass on the knowledge required to read and interpret artefacts containing digital representations of information.