![]() > Think archival grade materials and ink, then add translations into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish. Make multiple copies and distribute them around the world, including tectonically stable desiccated regions that are currently lightly- or un-inhabited and likely to remain so: the criteria for deep disposal nuclear waste repositories are applicable (minus the "deep") bit, so Yucca Flats would do, or the Atacama Desert or the McMurdo dry valleys in Antarctica. ![]() ![]() Then maybe add a dictionary, just in case words have fallen out of use. Think archival grade materials and ink, then add translations into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish - there's a much better chance of it being readable if you have more than one language. And you're asking for a personal legacy to be legible and usable after surviving a span of time 10% as vast as the existence of writing itself? We've had agriculture for roughly 11,000 years. the oldest surviving writing is roughly 5500 years old. ![]() To get the big picture of what 500 years means. We're discussing this topic in modern English, but if you look back 500 years William Shakespeare wouldn't be born for another couple of generations: vocabulary and grammar have changed a lot since then, and if you look back a further 500 years (to 1021AD) the "English" spoken in those days was a lot closer to Frisian than anything we'd understand. We've had computers for 76 years at this point. ![]()
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