There are
archival ink cartridges, but they are expensive as hell.
and "acid-free" paper
Something like Cauzin Softstrip sounds promising, but in x years, you
might have to build your own reader, and will others remember the
encoding? (think quipo!)
The idea I was thinking of is some algorithm to turn an image of a binary
encoded into a paper document, back into a binary. The problem with the
Softstrip was the paucity of readers and stuff to read with the readers,
but here it's just scanners and printers. If you can make an intermediate
image out of the document, you can decode it. I don't think people will
have forgotten how to decode a P6 PNM in the 23rd century -- what's to
decode?
Have we even succeeded in figuring out Stonehenge and
the Antikythera
mechanism?
Yes, but I think the problem was that they deleted the source code out of
github. Those nuts.
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