Erasing ourselves from history.

[Erja_Perttu]

I sense much troll in you.

Indeed, the troll runs strong in this one.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Your mind has just been blown.

?

No it hasn't.
Yes we are digitizing everything, but they are copies, so in case the original gets destroyed, we can make another. Also if something happens to Earth, hopefully by then we will have humans living off-world, or passed on our information to another sentient species.

If every piece of digital software was destroyed, the likely hood that we would re-create all this software in exactly the same way is minimal.

Wait a tic.
*re-reads OP*

I see. How exactly would an electrical war obliterate every piece of digital software?

Humans are clever and want to be remembered enough that if there was any threat of some kind of disaster that could wipe us or our legacy out, we would
1. Flee and hope that enough people escape to rebuild.
2. Create a computer that stored our legacy and completely cut it off from remote access.
3. Shield the computer as best we can, so it cannot be destroyed.

That idea has one tiny little flaw though...

COMPUTERS WILL CONQUER THE WORLD!!!

 

[atomicmrpelly]

You know you created quite an interesting topic and it would have probably been quite successful had you not responded with hostility to anyone who even so much as questions you.

 

[orangebandguy]

I'm sure we'll be fine. Everyone's too terrified to start wars because of nuclear weapons anyway.

Knowledge will preserved and technology will increase to allow this preservation. And besides we could just put it all in huge vaults on their own independant supply of power.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Your mind has just been blown.

Don't be so pretentious. Your theory is full of holes and you know it.

 

[Jark212]

Terra

EARTH!!!!!

Out of curiosity why do you call it Terra???

 

[whycantibelinus]

We are writing ourselves out of history. In a push to be the most amazing, the most informed, the most far reaching of societies in the history of the earth we have put ourselves on digital devices that are only readable by those that hold the exact technology to open fake documents made up of 1s and 0s.

Thousands of years from now a giant pock-mark on history will be void of information and summed up by ageless plastic scattered under massive natural disasters the earth could have moved on from if the entire world wasn't paved in a solid layer of concrete.

Books and tablets are readable for centuries, digital documents are as good as gone in the first massive electrical war that is looming in our near future.

We try to be important, and instead we're erasing ourselves from the very fabric of time itself.

We've even taken the mediums that taught us about past society (art, photos, etc.) and digitized them... we really are writing ourselves out of existence. Our legacy is proprietary information...

Your mind has just been blown.

Been watching the History Channel have we?

 

[MasterChowmein]

TLDR

 

[Bobtowna]

Your mind has just been blown.

?

No it hasn't.
Yes we are digitizing everything, but they are copies, so in case the original gets destroyed, we can make another. Also if something happens to Earth, hopefully by then we will have humans living off-world, or passed on our information to another sentient species.

If every piece of digital software was destroyed, the likely hood that we would re-create all this software in exactly the same way is minimal.

Wait a tic.
*re-reads OP*

I see. How exactly would an electrical war obliterate every piece of digital software?

Humans are clever and want to be remembered enough that if there was any threat of some kind of disaster that could wipe us or our legacy out, we would
1. Flee and hope that enough people escape to rebuild.
2. Create a computer that stored our legacy and completely cut it off from remote access.
3. Shield the computer as best we can, so it cannot be destroyed.

That idea has one tiny little flaw though...

COMPUTERS WILL CONQUER THE WORLD!!!

What was that book about, because it looks pretty bad-ass.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Paper doesn't last nearly as long as something digitally stored.

Also the EMP blast via a nuclear weapon is a minor concern compared to the devastation of the nuclear blast. An EMP will only affect machines that are online and have an electric current coursing through them at the time. So if your computer if off and is hit by an EMP, nothing will happen. Besides the EMP blast from a nuclear bomb has never actually been tested, it's only a theory. You have to detonate it in the atmosphere as well. I'm not an expert on it but it has something to do with the reaction with the ionosphere or some part of the upper atmosphere which rewuires it to work properly.... I can't really remember.

Also don't for get books and newpapers that are still being published.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Terra

EARTH!!!!!

Out of curiosity why do you call it Terra???

Because Terra sounds much more beautiful to me.
That, and we're Terrans. We kick ass.
*Member of the Terran Empire here.*

 

[Blimey]

Your mind has just been blown.

Haha, no. Only time my mind was blown was when I figured out that there is terabytes of free porn on the web. A good day that was.

 

[Margrave Rinstock]

Do You Know How Much Knowledge has been Destroyed With the Traditional System? Books Crumple, Fade, are Eaten by bookworms, and are forgotten Eventually.

As was Aforementioned, We have Backups of Everything, with Information that is Actually Important Printed in Books and/or Stored on Film.

Honestly, I can't See how books are More Indestructible than Modern Technology.

 

[geldonyetich]

Books crumble in time. Even stone tablets may prove fruitless when you forget how to read them. 0s and 1s, on the other hand, can be converted to new mediums in nanoseconds.

No, it's not the preservation of information that may bring about a loss of this precious sentiment of the present you hope to keep. It is an excess of it. Even now, for all the great answers you may seek to life's problems, you can be sure that there's hundreds of wrong answers burying it.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Your mind has just been blown.

?

No it hasn't.
Yes we are digitizing everything, but they are copies, so in case the original gets destroyed, we can make another. Also if something happens to Earth, hopefully by then we will have humans living off-world, or passed on our information to another sentient species.

If every piece of digital software was destroyed, the likely hood that we would re-create all this software in exactly the same way is minimal.

Wait a tic.
*re-reads OP*

I see. How exactly would an electrical war obliterate every piece of digital software?

Humans are clever and want to be remembered enough that if there was any threat of some kind of disaster that could wipe us or our legacy out, we would
1. Flee and hope that enough people escape to rebuild.
2. Create a computer that stored our legacy and completely cut it off from remote access.
3. Shield the computer as best we can, so it cannot be destroyed.

That idea has one tiny little flaw though...

COMPUTERS WILL CONQUER THE WORLD!!!

What was that book about, because it looks pretty bad-ass.

A supercomputer has destroyed every human being in the world except 5. These 5 humans are now immortal thanks to the computer, and the computer spends all his time torturing them, and has done so for years.

 

[Jark212]

Terra

EARTH!!!!!

Out of curiosity why do you call it Terra???

Because Terra sounds much more beautiful to me.
That, and we're Terrans. We kick ass.
*Member of the Terran Empire here.*

You make a good case...

 

[Mr Wednesday]

Your mind has just been blown.

Aha, ahahaha, oh man. That is some funny shiz right there.

My mind has been blown? By some half baked cod philosophy?
Must try harder.

 

[Lord Of Cyberia]

What does this thread maker mean, "Writing ourselves out of history"? And an electronic war?

You are silly. Not only do we have already mentioned backups, but all that data is decentralized in millions of computers and servers. Unlike, say, The Library of Alexandria, in which a whole civilization worth of info was incinerated.