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>The Eupalinian aqueduct was used as an aqueduct for 1100 years What things today will be used for 1100 years?
by Thorrez 3y ago
>The Eupalinian aqueduct was used as an aqueduct for 1100 years
What things today will be used for 1100 years?
- Kamq 3y agoimagemagick
- kortilla 3y agoThe Panama and Suez canals are good candidates.
- concordDance 3y agoAssuming no AI takeover, massive technological increase, civilizational collapse due to dysgenics and lack of cheap energy, etc.
- roenxi 3y agoEven with all those things, the canals might still be used in 1,000 years. None of those things change the likely truth that floating physical goods is cheaper than land transport and those canals are at globally strategic points. The AI will have to move goods, technology change will still need to move goods, civilisations will rise and fall and still need to move goods. Even if energy gets more expensive, trade will still occur.
- ben_w 3y agoFor every point except AI takeover, I agree. AI takeover isn't well defined, and by extension it isn't assured to be sensible — if a narrow AI is made to optimise the heck out of [high contagious, short latency period, long incubation period, high lethality, can form stable reservoirs in other species], it can be good at that without any long term planning about what happens next. Conversely, we can also consider one that solves Von Neumann replication, and then it's less than a century to disassemble the planet Mercury, and from there a week or two for each of Venus and Earth. Assuming it had that as a goal.
- lgeorget 3y agoIn the tunnel category, maybe the tunnel under the English Channel, it's pretty impressive in its own right.
- gambiting 3y agoI wonder if anyone has done any studies on how many years it could stand unused without maintenance before some event would flood it.
- akdor1154 3y agoProbably Perl, though it will continue to bring surprise to those who find it has been gluing their systems together.
- amelius 3y agoSSH tunnels?