The way things are going, I worry about us as a species
Been cleaning up my room and I came across a small stack of MiniDV tapes. The problem is that I don’t have a MiniDV player.
Thought of this recently as I read the news.
As I said earlier, it’s depressing. Between the Kenyan mall shooting, the church bombing in Pakistan, and shootings here in the states, I wonder about our future as a species.
Historically speaking, when violent uprisings happen, there’s not just a wiping out of people, there’s a wiping out of that people’s civilization. After the burning(s) of the library of Alexandria, the western world saw 600 years of dark ages where knowledge was lost and only slowly rediscovered over centuries.
In Mali, the Islamists aren’t just killing people, they’re destroying ancient manuscripts, temples, and art in Timbuktu.
And if any one of these people nutjobs get a hold of a nuke, well then all those sci-fi films like Planet of the Apes – where major cities like NYC are little more than ruins – become very real.
Perhaps then these harddrives and computer will just have a wealth of knowledge on them that no one can read. After all, for about 1,400 years, no one could read Egyptian hieroglyphs until the Rosetta Stone was translated in 1822.
All that knowledge gone for 1,400 years.
Of course, I could just go to ebay now and pick up a MiniDV player and a computer with a Firewire in port to record the info on these tapes of mine. I’m geeky that way.
Then again, maybe some information is best lost and left undisturbed.
Case-in-point, this photo below of me right before my MRI in some fetching blue slippers. No one needs that.
I mean, I’m showing it to you, but, really, no one needs to see it.
Location: trying to get to the gym
Mood: concerned
Music: make the change, it’s up to you to break the chain
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3 replies on “Someone’s going to have to Rosseta Stone us in a 1,000 years”
Those slippers look fabulous on you! How was the MRI? I have to get my first one in December. I’m pretty scared.
Ha – thanks! The MRI was a while ago, maybe a year ago. BUT it was loud; it wasn’t so much scary for me as it was…loud. I felt like my head was pounding. And the guy kept yelling me to keep still so that didn’t help.
Overall, I’m glad I don’t have to do that with regularity!
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