Yep I'm with you. We now have lots of internet resources, The Guttenburg Project etc.. and I envisgae many more of the same.
On 22 Sep, 15:24, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think it would be a problem for future humans (or aliens) to > be able to retrieve and playback digital data. Hobbiests/hackers do > this sort of thing in their spare time for fun, an archeologist from > 4200 AD should have no problem. As someone mentioned, it remains to > be seen if much will be able to survive. Will harddrives and flash > disks be salvagable? > > Is this dilemma much different from our current situation? How much > day to day information is not available to us from times of > antiquity. Sure, we have the things that are carved in stone, and > written on papyrus stored in ideal conditions. This, of course leaves > out anything that may have rotted/disintegrated, any oral traditions, > anything written in sand. How can we know how much we don't know? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
