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Onion Week in Review: Nation Trying, OK?

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Decatur Deb2/24/2012 6:34:22 pm PST

re: #27 Interesting Times

We desperately need a “knowledge” equivalent of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Have no idea what form it should take, though…

re: #28 freetoken

Clay tablets.

They seem durable.

The need to produce multi-millenial warning signs on high-level nuclear waste storage sites led to some interesting study of long-term information transmission. There were Sci-Am articles around in the ’80s IIRC. Can’t hang here at the moment.

Also check out “Clock of the Long Now” for some perspectives.