Re: archives
[ Home ][ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Stewart Brand
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:48:29 -0800
At 8:54 PM -0800 2/18/98, Bruce Sterling wrote:
>I'm also surprised to hear that nobody has suggested parking massive
>tiny archives in orbit. Might make a nice reward for the next
>spacefaring civilization if they achieved escape velocity and discovered
>the complete works of the ancient Greeks.
Hmm, story possibilities there.
Related, one vision that keeps Long Now longing is: humans arrive on Mars
and find a very very old Clock, still ticking. That gets us looking for
the archives.