Print isn't dead, just getting smaller...

[Randall]

A project to create an open-source 21st-century Rosetta Stone of the world's languages is taking the analog route -- micro-etching the text onto a 3-inch metal disk that should last 2,000 years. No more worries about where you're going to find a working Zip drive in 4002, eh?

All that your average cockroach anthropologist will need is a 1,000-power microscope or really good eyesight.

I know, Andi, I know -- it still won't be searchable.

Randall

[Andilinks]

But it will be scanable, right?

[Randall]

Yes, they say it's designed for OCR. Assuming that the cockroaches have developed OCR by then, and aren't still copying text laboriously by ... uh, leg-thingy.

Randall