[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

[Brian]

Because the rate of change of technological progress has presumably been
slower than it will be over the next 3000 years. Then again, given an AI
capable of digesting an enormous amount of information (for example, reading
the Wikipedia of 2050), it might find Brittany Spears just as interesting as
anything else.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/5/5 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
> > In 3000 years, nobody will give a rat's ass about Britney Spears'
> > discography (again, to pick a random example of "pop culture").
> > That's a bet I'm willing to make.
>
> Then why is this article so long:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Ancient_Egypt
>
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