http://blog.longnow.org/2008/04/18/before-and-after/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://blog.longnow.org/2008/04/18/before-and-after/#comment-3966 False Data Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:33:42 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2008/04/18/before-and-after/#comment-3966 This comment is only tangentially related to this post, but the pictures (and the link to Johnathan Keats Long Photo off the Inspiration page) got me thinking that the Long Now foundation probably has accumulated a large knowledge base about what works,and what doesn't, over long time spans. For instance, if someone wanted to build a time-lapse camera that would take one picture a day for 40 years, or one picture a year for the next ten thousand years, what is the state of the art in image storage techniques? I'm guessing Long Now probably has some of that information, or at least good pointers to get started. Is that information publicly available somewhere? This comment is only tangentially related to this post, but the pictures (and the link to Johnathan Keats Long Photo off the Inspiration page) got me thinking that the Long Now foundation probably has accumulated a large knowledge base about what works,and what doesn’t, over long time spans. For instance, if someone wanted to build a time-lapse camera that would take one picture a day for 40 years, or one picture a year for the next ten thousand years, what is the state of the art in image storage techniques? I’m guessing Long Now probably has some of that information, or at least good pointers to get started. Is that information publicly available somewhere?

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