[extropy-chat] Wait a minute. What's our contingency plan?

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Tue Jan 11 18:09:01 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:31:56AM -0600, Alex F. Bokov wrote:

> *** What should we do to keep technological progress humming along
> should the world collapse into another dark age? ***

Bury many copies of the modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandria.
(I know of a guy in Oz who's been burying stacks of microfiches in steel
baloons in the desert).

Something directly human-readable (with some magnification, batteries
included), and long-lasting (several kiloyears at least). I hope the 
Long Now people are into this; they'd better.
 
> Not the government, not some hypothetical investor, not "the public"
> suddenly getting a clue, but we, us. Not just technically feasible, but
> here and now, with the resources we have at our disposal. Please don't
> bring politics/ideology into this. They'll be cold comfort when you're
> dead. Let's be pragmatic.

I assume I have to die even if things pan out far better than expected.
Possibly for good, if cryonics isn't there in some four to five decades.

If you've got reasons for more optimism, let us hear it.

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