8 Dec
2009
8 Dec
'09
2:35 a.m.
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, David Griffith wrote:
If I were to sit down and designs something like this,
I'd make sure it
would be easily reverse-engineerable. If we can assume The Future will
have scanners and computers capable of making use of them, each page would
have some sort of legend explaining how the dots are organized. That
should do it.
What encoding shall the legend be in?
. . . and you will need some sort of "Rosetta Stone" multiple versions of
that, in case nobody reads English any more.
Yeah, I know, that's ridiculous. Society will never again forget entire
written languages, as they did with Egyptioan hieroglyphics and quipu.
Besides, we could always send John Titor back for some hardware.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com