The second you talked about etching knowledge for the future, I immediately thought of The Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project—which intends to etch lots of linguistic information onto small metal discs, with lots of copies floating around for redundancy. They’re apparently having production problems, though. I believe the Long Now book actually muses about how a “civilization start up guide” might be something handy to put in a similar format, but don’t have it around at the moment.
Out of curiosity, why uranium glass?
And going off on a tangent, does the entire Long Now Foundation and its projects remind anyone else of Hanson’s “Dreamtime” concept?
The second you talked about etching knowledge for the future, I immediately thought of The Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project—which intends to etch lots of linguistic information onto small metal discs, with lots of copies floating around for redundancy. They’re apparently having production problems, though. I believe the Long Now book actually muses about how a “civilization start up guide” might be something handy to put in a similar format, but don’t have it around at the moment.
Out of curiosity, why uranium glass?
And going off on a tangent, does the entire Long Now Foundation and its projects remind anyone else of Hanson’s “Dreamtime” concept?