On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:00:41PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > I am wondering what some cultural anthropologist will have to asy about > > this in a few centuries' time :-) > > Easy: > > "Anybody know what these little platters of dusty old ferric oxide > particles are?? anybody?" > > "I think they are some sort of religious talisman --" > > "NO NO NO! I told you they are a fetish used in certain rituals" > > "I think they are a weapon, the hunters hurled them from an > electronically controlled, high-rpm device. They would literally slice > into their prey -- very accurate over long distances -- " > > "RUBBISH! These are clearly a symbolic representation of the sun > god!!" > > ... > > or maybe it will be something more like this: > > "Emacs!!" > > "Vi!!" > Good point. We can't even read tape and file formats from 20 years ago. I don't know what possessed me to think that in hundreds of years anything from today will still be accessible :-)
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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