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Why not encode them microscopically, using some kind of easily decipherable code? The main issue would be loss of language. You’d end up with a gigantic Rosett
by gilded-lilly 4y ago
Why not encode them microscopically, using some kind of easily decipherable code?
The main issue would be loss of language. You’d end up with a gigantic Rosetta Stone of indecipherable gibberish.
Better would be to convert all literature into hieroglyphics, or graphic novels (or both), and then etch them microscopically.
- areoform 4y agoThis size will have microscopic features! There is probably a balance between ease of scanning/technological sophistication required to see the pages, cost of etching, and the number of plates overall. The Long Now Foundation has extensively studied the language loss problem and arrived at a fairly elegant set of solutions. https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/01/20/linguistic-data-in-the-long-view/ https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/01/20/linguistic-data-in-the...
- 6510 4y agoEncode in dna and do roaches with random pages on their back.