Magosányi Árpád a écrit:
A levelezőm azt hiszi, hogy Robert Scott Horning a következőeket írta:
Clay tablets could provide that sort of stability, especially if you make them ceramic instead, and don't suffer from being super valuable like gold for other things. The #1 problem is that they are more prone to environmental damage and you can't put the detail in so finely as you could with gold (i.e. archiving large quantities of information are pretty much out).
I would think that technology of ceramics is advanced enough now that enironmental damage is less concern than with gold. I would also venture to say that creating such ceramics tables needs much more physical world resources than creating wikipages. However is seems possible that companies doing ceramics technology would venture to offer some unnoticeable fraction of their production resources for the wast marketing possibilities of being the one to archive Wikipedia forever.
It would be useful to estimate the quantity of information needed to make live easier after a catastrophy. If it is low enough (I guess it is), we might consider to conserve this set as tables readily useable for print. This way it could reach a much wider population than if it would be written in microfilm size.
I like this idea of preserving basic information in case of a catastrophe. Actually, someone thought about the content on the french wikipedia, but for now, not much work have been given on it.