In the far away future I think there will be a lot of information available from our time. The advances in technology will make information storage easier and more reliable. Important information will be backed up on new technology as time progresses and very little will be lost. Today’s state of the art technology will be completely outdated in 10 years time and the people of the future will look at the blue ray disc similarly to the way that we look at the first audio recording that Thomas Edison made in 1877.
If we look back 150 years and compare the technology of that time with our present technology we will se that the number of techniques to preserve information has multiplied by a huge number. Back in those days they could either write on a paper or carve information that they wanted to share into basic material. Today we can store information using sound waves, mechanics, nanotechnology, digital technology an more. Storing information in DNA is even theoretically possible today.
So if technology have grown from zero to where we are today in 150 years, imagine what is possible in a thousand years time. The complete encyclopaedia of the life on earth can probably be stored on a human hair in 3008.
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Hello Fredrik!
As you say the technique that we use today to store information on will not be used in the future. Everything develops. However I don’t think that we save so much information at all to the future. It was more common to save information back in the days.
Hi Fredrik,
You are right that we are kind of obsessed about storing everything nowadays so the problem for the future generations may be to select samples that are representative for our times. I also agree that the progress is being made so fast that our most advanced technologies will be soon treated as outdated. Storing devices are getting smaller and handier all the time so maybe we will get rid of them soon and replace them with some body in-built chips or something to have our information even more handy than now.
Regards,
Aneta
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