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Akima:
This is a sample of Linear A. It has survived for thousands of years. Nobody can read it.
pwhodges:
See? It's not just digital storage that has problems in that regard!
When the recording of Nelson Mandela's speech to the court after he was jailed were found, the only remaining machine that could play it was already in the Science Museum in London.
Akima:
Exactly my point. An everlasting recording medium is not useful without a similarly long-lived ability to read it. Which is not just a matter of hardware, but software, including that running in human brains. All of that assumes the sort of cultural continuity that allows Oracle Bone Script (the oldest examples dating back to about 1400BCE) to be read where Linear A cannot.
mustang6172:
Will anyone decipher this gobbledygook?
SubaruStephen:
I hope not, that one on the left has our address.
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