Comments on: Rosetta Disk 1.0 Browseable Archive – now available online http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jra’s thoughts › You heard it here first, folks… http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6651 jra’s thoughts › You heard it here first, folks… Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:16:08 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/#comment-6651 [...] Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project does something clever, which is to start their disk with big text that swirls into microscopic [...] [...] Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project does something clever, which is to start their disk with big text that swirls into microscopic [...]

]]> By: Alexander Rose http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6633 Alexander Rose Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:12:31 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/#comment-6633 The StoryCorps project is very cool, I had not looked at it closely. They dont seem to publish what their long term archiving strategy is however... The StoryCorps project is very cool, I had not looked at it closely. They dont seem to publish what their long term archiving strategy is however…

]]> By: Francis Osborn http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6628 Francis Osborn Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:29:21 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/rosetta-disk-10-browseable-archive-now-available-online-2/#comment-6628 I've been thinking about the Rosetta Project this morning, in conjunction with a Futurology/Transhumanism blog which mentioned the future possibility of "mind uploading". Mind uploading seems a slightly macarbre sort of prospect, and quite technocratic - I'd been uncomfortable with it ever since, in part because it's a potentially nasty part of documentation of the past and present, which is something I love. This morning the thoughts came together around an article from the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7946565.stm This seems to be an excellent long-termist project, uniting a democratic and transparent documentation of dialect with a clear element of storing peoples' stories, outlooks and the real grit and substance of their lives. It seems notable, given that so much of our awareness of our past comes not so much for ledgers and financial reports, but from peoples' diaries. The BBC article could, I think, be taken as a sign of a growing of long-term thinking. I’ve been thinking about the Rosetta Project this morning, in conjunction with a Futurology/Transhumanism blog which mentioned the future possibility of “mind uploading”.

Mind uploading seems a slightly macarbre sort of prospect, and quite technocratic – I’d been uncomfortable with it ever since, in part because it’s a potentially nasty part of documentation of the past and present, which is something I love.

This morning the thoughts came together around an article from the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7946565.stm This seems to be an excellent long-termist project, uniting a democratic and transparent documentation of dialect with a clear element of storing peoples’ stories, outlooks and the real grit and substance of their lives.

It seems notable, given that so much of our awareness of our past comes not so much for ledgers and financial reports, but from peoples’ diaries. The BBC article could, I think, be taken as a sign of a growing of long-term thinking.

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