http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-million-year-hard-disk Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-million-year-hard-disk/comment-page-1#comment-24614 Patricia Napolitano Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:51:46 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=155707#comment-24614 Future scientists would also need a knowledge of the language in which the disk was written Future scientists would also need a knowledge of the language in which the disk was written

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-million-year-hard-disk/comment-page-1#comment-24532 William Kramer Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:55:23 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=155707#comment-24532 The caveat is: "All a future archaeologist would need to read them is a microscope." Better than a microscope, how about a Geiger counter? If people or some other entity were to start digging though all that concrete or rubble, seems that the first question would be "why?" If they were primitives, why would they invest all that work into digging though reinforced rubble when there would be much more lucrative and fascinating things to be found in the remains of cities with much easier access? If they were advanced enough to have a microscope the chances are pretty good that they (1) will have knowledge of radiation, its effects and how to detect it or (2) whether advanced or not they will start to notice that they are dying when they go into that area, which is usually a great lesson to stay away. People long ago learned that walking into smoking calderas caused them to die from asphyxiation, so they stayed away. It was no great feat of reasoning. The whole "how do we keep future people away from nuclear dumps" seems overblown. It also seems rather nearsighted to think that within a few hundred years we won't have the tech fix to excavate the dumps with robotics and recycle the radioactive wastes or send them to the sun or the Earth's core for disposal. The caveat is: “All a future archaeologist would need to read them is a microscope.” Better than a microscope, how about a Geiger counter? If people or some other entity were to start digging though all that concrete or rubble, seems that the first question would be “why?” If they were primitives, why would they invest all that work into digging though reinforced rubble when there would be much more lucrative and fascinating things to be found in the remains of cities with much easier access? If they were advanced enough to have a microscope the chances are pretty good that they (1) will have knowledge of radiation, its effects and how to detect it or (2) whether advanced or not they will start to notice that they are dying when they go into that area, which is usually a great lesson to stay away. People long ago learned that walking into smoking calderas caused them to die from asphyxiation, so they stayed away. It was no great feat of reasoning. The whole “how do we keep future people away from nuclear dumps” seems overblown. It also seems rather nearsighted to think that within a few hundred years we won’t have the tech fix to excavate the dumps with robotics and recycle the radioactive wastes or send them to the sun or the Earth’s core for disposal.

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-million-year-hard-disk/comment-page-1#comment-24460 Dayhawk Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:23:15 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=155707#comment-24460 I look forward to see where this goes. of course this is not a new Idea cause people long time ago came with Idea to storing info on a stone. I look forward to see where this goes. of course this is not a new Idea cause people long time ago came with Idea to storing info on a stone.

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