Cave paintings, images on mountains and rocks, papyrus, texts finely carved stones, sculptures, high and low reliefs, roads, temples and palaces, the nearest we get an idea of the achievements and failures of humanity.
Part of the information contained in each period, in the manner discussed above, the management was reserved only for a privileged few, few historical facts were presented in the form of images on the walls of the temples for the consumption of the population mass, mass it was mostly illiterate.
Then, in the fourteenth century, Gutenberg perfected printing press, signaling a revolution as far as information dissemination is concerned. For the first time since he was aware the information can reach the masses. In the beginning only the first printed texts also came to some privileged, but it is fair to say that these were much more than the privileged of previous centuries. The important thing to note is that this event marks the beginning of what will one day be called massification of information.
Human beings who inhabit the planet today are the most knowledgeable of all time. We handle all types of knowledge from our development area, home and business.
There is so much information available that we do not give the attention it deserves, as a person who all his life suffered from hunger and suddenly have so much food available than wasted. This whole scenario super informative we owe largely to the advancement of computers and internet development.
In the last three decades, humans have increasingly the opportunity to have a personal computer, it produces personal and work documents, stores information of all kinds, text, images, music, videos and entertains. For two decades additionally connects and communicates with friends and family, real-time reporting of the news generated globally, has access to millions of knowledge. Access to the network of networks, the internet.
The use of these advances so common that you, friend reader, may be asking "where are you going with this article?", You may think that continuing this reading is wasting time, as talk of hot water.
If you paid attention to the first line of the first paragraph, observed, that there says: "From the distant past has come down to us some information." Yes, some information has come because certainly not all of it to come.
For example, we do not know exactly how they built the pyramids and other egyptian structures which have somehow survived to this day. We do not know exactly whether the vikings were the first to come to America from the old world. We do not know whether the first inhabitants of America came from Asia, Oceania or both. Know or suspect that Atlantis existed but there was no way to check.
Do not know how the Mayans could achieve so many advances in astronomy. Do not know how the egyptians were able to realize that crocodile feces are an excellent spermicidal. These just to say few into millions of examples. For some it seems useless regret that we have lost out huge volumes of information, but not for others.
The most palpable of which we have knowledge of large losses of all kinds of knowledge, is the case of the fourth century destruction of the library of Alexandria, this had collected at least 900,000 volumes of texts from various empires and civilizations, that loss to humanity represented significant stagnation as far as knowledge is concerned.
The important thing is that some of the historical information, technical and humanistic has somehow been rescued through time. But could be rescued due to the medium in which it was stored, on stone. The stone resists the ruthless actions of the elements, is immune to bacteria attacks and many chemicals, electrostatic discharge, resist time passage more than any other storage medium.
The current information storage media are becoming increasingly fragile. Despite the large contribution of printing, paper is very vulnerable, as all organic material. Some early books stored in monasteries still exist, thanks to the paper they are printed was made with lasting intention. The paper made today does not have the same quality. Any book made today in two years is very run down, not made with the intention of resists time passage. We make them just thinking use today and no use them at future.
Additionally, there is a growing tendency to print fewer books, that surely appreciate nature because many trees were saved. The trend of fewer books are printed by the increasing use of computers for data storage. They can store millions of data in a very small space. I think it's possible that all the lost information in the library of Alexandria could fit in a flash, SD or USB flash drive. If not now, wait a couple of years and see if it is possible for the technology advancement .
We are sure there will come a time that all humanity information will stored on media computer. These electromagnetic systems have large storage capacity, but are as fragile as paper. If a medium-sized book deteriorates a subject loses. But, if damaged magnetic media with same size of same book is lost the equivalent information of an entire modern library. The electrical equipment are susceptible to radiation, radio interference, damages for failure to feeding voltage, and others.
Assume the following scenario, a solar flare emits to us an enormous amount of radiation that the planet's natural protections mechanisms are unable to counter. Or, a meteorite the size of a shopping center crashes into us. That we call apocalyptic scenarios. In both cases or other similar, the first thing that will be affected will be the earth's electromagnetic field will be cleared in a matter of moment all hard disks and other mass storage media available to us now or in the future.
The original impact of the tragedy removed, also in an instant, half of the individuals in each of the living species, another quarter will succumb in the years following the disaster, the rest will be devoted to survive for centuries. After that time, nobody will have notion of what computers were. Like many or most of the important information, disappeared with them, humanity would almost zero.
Something similar happen with the pyramids and Atlantis ?.
If you are skeptical of what you are reading, think that this loss of information would not be a tragedy for humanity, or may not happen ever, I invite you to make a memory exercise. Remember how you felt while lost a flash drive, or while you irrevocably damage your personal computer.
It is better to think that we keep a backup of all world information on another planet?
And if we do, how long time would take for humanity, after the disaster, go get it, understand and process it?
Hopelessly we going towards the new beginning.
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