dmitridbMon, Feb 25, 2008 And also, there's the matter of the fact that paper only lasts so long, and is nice and burnable. What if a potential future dark age lasts a good 1000 years, in which time most of our printed material will be nice and rotted? Who knows what kind of future and unfamiliar climactic conditions can do to speed that all up?
I always thought it'd be cool to just make a hobby out of carving important information into stone and burying it for someone's hidden treasure of the future, just in case. Thing is that it'd be a bit hard to choose what exactly to fit in there.
And also, there's the matter of the fact that paper only lasts so long, and is nice and burnable. What if a potential future dark age lasts a good 1000 years, in which time most of our printed material will be nice and rotted? Who knows what kind of future and unfamiliar climactic conditions can do to speed that all up?
I always thought it'd be cool to just make a hobby out of carving important information into stone and burying it for someone's hidden treasure of the future, just in case. Thing is that it'd be a bit hard to choose what exactly to fit in there.