Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years

• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well that’s the problem, you have absolutely no way to know if it will make sense 10000 years down the line. Humans only invented writing around 6000 or 7000 years ago. It’s a really long time on our scale.

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  • Schmeckinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does thst have to do with writing? Pictograms are images. You take a microscope look at it and it tells you in image form how to decode it.

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    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It has a lot to do with it, because writing is nothing more than standardised pictograms which have meanings and these change a lot over time.
      I’m not saying it can’t be done but to believe that what has been drawn or represented will be understood correctly 10000 years down the line, by humans or anything else is a big bet.

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      • Schmeckinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is just wrong. Yes the meanings of words change, but images and math dont change.

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