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The Human Document Project

to preserve one document about mankind for one million years

Topics

 

 

Program 2010

Background

Invited Speakers 2010

Location 2010

Next Workshop 2012

 

 

 

 

 

what is human culture? what to include? top achievements or everyday life? textbooks? wikipedia? opinion? controversial topics? different geographical origins.

how to document? language? line drawings? binary code? films and music?

teaching through multiple languages? primary school textbooks? scientific encoding tables?

where to put it? in a museum, visible to all? billions of copies? on the moon? in a desert or a city center? near geographically defined spots, Mariana trench, Ayers rock, Easter island? Gizeh, Xi‘an, Stonehenge?

how to structure the document? linear text? large number of small chapters? puzzle?

how to integrate a clock? radioactive isotopes? describing astronomical events?

on what material? monocrystalline silicon? embedding in amber? DNA of a living organism?Fig_5