"Fifty to ninety percent of the world's languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, according to the The Rosetta Project, a collaborative, open-source endeavor by language specialists and native speakers around the world who are creating a "near permanent" archive of the world's languages." [Wired News: 04/11/02]Not only is this a wonderful idea, it's also being implemented in fantastic way. What futuristic digital medium would you store data on all the world's languages on, if you wanted it to be read in a hundred or even a thousand years time? Obviously, you wouldn't go digital at all ... you'd etch it in teeny-tiny printing on a three-inch nickel disk. That way, those future humans will only need a 1000x microscope to read it. Now that's thinking.
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