For a related story, check out "Humanity's Final Game," the story of the winner of this year's GDC Game Design Challenge: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4158

For a related story, check out "Humanity's Final Game," the story of the winner of this year's GDC Game Design Challenge: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4158218/humanitys-final-game-a-titanium-board-game-buried-in-the-nevada-desert http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4158218/humanitys-final-ga... The winner's efforts show the difficulty in designing something that will last, and be recognizable, in thousands of years. It was constructed of titanium and glass, the instructions were custom pictographs, and the location where it was placed was carefully orchestrated. This illustrates the problem with trying to span such a long time. What will the world even look like in 100 years, let alone a millennium? Will we have the Internet? Will we speak any recognizable language? Heck, will we live in this solar system?