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Published 8 years ago by Cobbydaler with 1 Comments

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  • septimine
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    That doesn't make sense. Sure you could store knowledge that way, but that makes some rather strange assumptions about how civilization will look 1000 years from now. First is that we'll still have a civilization capable of extracting DNA from a cell. The Romans, Egyptians, Mayans and Incas would like a word. Every civilization has eventually collapsed, and given enough time, so will ours. This I think using a technological scheme to encode information is probably not wise if you intend that people living 1000 years from now can extract and read the message. We might not have the same level of technology. We had to rediscover concrete after Rome fell. But second, the code scheme used could change. Human languages change all the time, and the logia Franca has changed several times. 200 years ago, it was French, before that, Latin and Greek, before that Persian and Aramaic, etc. the Bible was written in Koine Greek because most people learned that language as at least a second language. If I wrote something in Koine today, very few people would recognize it and even fewer could read it. An encyclopedia in that language would be useless to most people.

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