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I think that a philanthropist, or just the Smithsonian
could
have a thing where if you send them a microsdcard to
place
at their collections. Then any person could archive their
512GB (yep gigabyte) contribution to the future to be
perused
by the public and scholars as long as the Smithsonian
lasts.
The actual volume of a million microSDcards is
comparatively
tiny.
Now to make it even niftier you could just send it to
them
postage due as well.
improvement:
I imagine the million microsd cards randomly placed on a table, with a rotating drum at one side. The drum would have eentsy electrical contacts and rotate very gradually. The eentsy electrical contacts would usually meet up with the microSDcard conductors, then whichever of the large plurality of microSDcards was activating at the drum surface would all be visible online for a 24 hours or so.
People could view it online as a living history of what people think about cultural exhibit (a Smithsonianish way to get past copyright issues) as well as an opportunity for people, or AIs, anywhere on earth to copy that which others thought to be important. So it is also a high transparency free future speech museum.
ahem, "wibni"
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Makes me curious. What is the static, unused life
expectancy of an SD card in terms of data integrity
if its just left to sit in a controlled environment
indefinitely? And what would be its first failure
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I am glad you asked. the actual idea was more thorough than described. |
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I imagined the million microsd cards randomly placed on a table, with a rotating drum at one side. The drum would have eentsy electrical contacts and rotate very gradually. The eentsy electrical contacts would usually meet up with the microSDcard conductors, then whichever of the large plurality of microSDcards was activating at the drum surface would all be visible online for a 24 hours or so. |
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People could view it online as a living history of what people think about cultural exhibit (a Smithsonianish way to get past copyright issues) as well as an opportunity for people, or AIs, anywhere on earth to copy that which others thought to be important. So it is also a high transparency free future speech museum. |
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