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Yeah but then 1000 years from now nobody will have the right USB cable to read it. I think we should stick to proven solutions for millennia-robust information
by vasco 8mo ago
Yeah but then 1000 years from now nobody will have the right USB cable to read it.
I think we should stick to proven solutions for millennia-robust information storage and paint it on walls inside pyramids.
- stackghost 8mo agoIf Nanni could have engraved his shitpost about Ea-nasir's copper into multiple glass tablets, easy to distribute, that would last for 10000 years, he probably would have.
- userbinator 8mo agoYou could "bootstrap" all the information required to produce the hardware to read this, by starting with human-readable instructions for the next step.
- dguest 8mo agoWhat language will humans be reading in 10,000 years?
- cute_boi 8mo agoWith all these climate change and AI, will there be humans in 10k years?
- lofaszvanitt 8mo agoYep, on top of trees, fighting for real estate.
- nubinetwork 8mo ago20 years ago, I thought Esperanto might be a thing, but nope. :)
- adrian_b 8mo agoEsperanto has succeeded to become the best known of the artificially-constructed languages. Unfortunately, its creator had only modest knowledge of linguistics, so there are many features of Esperanto that can be considered as mistakes, and they have contributed to its little success. Some of the artificial languages that have been designed later are much better than Esperanto, but they have achieved even less notoriety than it. What has doomed all artificial languages, despite the fact that some of them would have been much better than English for international relations and for the publication of scientific and technical literature, has been the absolute dominance of USA over the entire world after the end of WWII. This unbalanced relationship between USA and everyone else has forced the use of English both in commercial relations and in the scientific and technical publications, excluding all alternatives and replacing not only any artificial languages, but also the European languages that previously had been more important than English, i.e. German and French.
- userbinator 8mo agoPictures.
- anthk 8mo agoA blend of Spanish and some Portuguese, German and Italian words here and there and English borrowings for technology (with Romance adaptations too). Some kind of Neolatin. I would expect the Chinese being reformed with a simple alphabet a la Korean but with Japanese-like marks for tones.
- kbelder 8mo agoSector zero should describe how to implement a simple FORTH...
- hulitu 8mo agoThey will use "glasses" as storage units.
- Aardwolf 8mo agoYou don't necessarily need the same hardware to read it, just like you can read a vinyl record optically without a needle
- dyauspitr 8mo agoDepends on what you etch on there. If it’s binary representation of actual alphabets then sure. If it’s a video file then without the software to decipher and manipulate the data, it would be pretty indecipherable. How to read an mp4 is not part of the data itself.
- hulitu 8mo agobut then 1000 years from now the quantum computer, developed by Microsoft, would not need cables.