HACKER Q&A
📣 slmjkdbtl

How do we record the history of today?


How do we record history of today? How do we make sure the medium we use today is enduring like ancient carvings on stones? How do we make sure the language and symbols we use to record history today are still meaningful in the distant future?


  👤 sigmaprimus Accepted Answer ✓
In short we don't, at least not intentionally.

Just like in the past but on a much grander scale it will be our trash that provides the least corrupted record of our society. I believe it was a Futurama episode that joked about the AOL CD ROM mountain which would probably be dwarfed by the K-Cup one now.

If I had to come up with an method to provide a more secure way to store our history and pass it on to future generations...and had unlimited funds. I would land a multiband and frequency transmitter on Halley's Comet set to broadcast every 80 years or so when it comes into range of the earth.


👤 joshxyz
hmmm wikipedia, arctic vaults, and flying cars in space? :)