Gregory's Servertime for a joint operation between Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and Software Heritage to emboss the intellectual commons onto diamond tablets so that when the next sapient race emerges on this planet all this work is not for naught
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lab-grown diamonds are a thing you can get today, do they come in sheets, can we turn them into optical media storage Archivists For Surviving Extinction want to know @VickyRampin Shoulda known the digital librarian would swoop in with the real versions of this @cwebber putting digital objects into weird formats and media is easy. getting it out........  @VickyRampin @cwebber didn't the Svalbard Global Seed Vault get flooded recently or am i getting that confused  used to know a guy who was very into this sort of thing. we had some discussions about it. diamond makes sense from some angles but on the front end still has lots of technical challenges on the back end we don't want our heirs repurposing it into, say, mining tools what if moveable type, but for printing onto structural tiles: roofing, siding, backsplashes, drainage, etc more fragile material, but still with good long-term properties. compensate its downsides by making lots of cheap & widely distributed copies  |
@cwebber the Long Now Foundation uses nickel discs https://rosettaproject.org/