Yeah but then 1000 years from now nobody will have the right USB cable to read it.

I think we should stick to proven solutions for millennia-robust information storage and paint it on walls inside pyramids.

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userbinator 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You could "bootstrap" all the information required to produce the hardware to read this, by starting with human-readable instructions for the next step.

	▲	dguest 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What language will humans be reading in 10,000 years?

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Aardwolf 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't necessarily need the same hardware to read it, just like you can read a vinyl record optically without a needle

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dyauspitr 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends on what you etch on there. If it’s binary representation of actual alphabets then sure. If it’s a video file then without the software to decipher and manipulate the data, it would be pretty indecipherable. How to read an mp4 is not part of the data itself.

	▲	simicd 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At 4.8TB one could add a header section with the full code, instructions how to compile it etc. That would certainly help to reproduce it, assuming civilizations in 10k years still can decypher todays language.

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stackghost 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If Nanni could have engraved his shitpost about Ea-nasir's copper into multiple glass tablets, easy to distribute, that would last for 10000 years, he probably would have.