It is difficult to know which knowledge to preserve to which grade. I wish I could have a printed copy of the ‘most important’ Wikipedia articles.
At least I bought a Wikipedia DVD in case I’m offline but I’m not sure it will help much to restore civilitation in a real disaster.
Some things should be on paper. Some things should be on nickel like the LongNow foundation does. But which?
Actually I once wrote a proposal in the MetaPedia for that but guess what: I couldn’t find it again the last time I looked for it. The whole structure had changed. We have no standardized way to tag digital documents to be more (or less) important than other documents (and such a relative classification which could be automatically resolved to a total order is much better than any fixed absolute scheme—guess why).
wouldn’t something like microfilm make more sense; not reliant on a special reader (just include normal-sized instructions for making a crude microscope) and still decent storage density. Maybe etch it into aluminum and roll it up in giant rolls.
It is difficult to know which knowledge to preserve to which grade. I wish I could have a printed copy of the ‘most important’ Wikipedia articles.
At least I bought a Wikipedia DVD in case I’m offline but I’m not sure it will help much to restore civilitation in a real disaster.
Some things should be on paper. Some things should be on nickel like the LongNow foundation does. But which?
Actually I once wrote a proposal in the MetaPedia for that but guess what: I couldn’t find it again the last time I looked for it. The whole structure had changed. We have no standardized way to tag digital documents to be more (or less) important than other documents (and such a relative classification which could be automatically resolved to a total order is much better than any fixed absolute scheme—guess why).
wouldn’t something like microfilm make more sense; not reliant on a special reader (just include normal-sized instructions for making a crude microscope) and still decent storage density. Maybe etch it into aluminum and roll it up in giant rolls.
Of course. It’s one of the many conceivable in-betweens.