[ChuckMcM]

Hence the :-) in my comment. What I took from the article was the wonder the author felt at "touching" history in this way. It is similar to picking up a fossil and knowing that a very long time ago something lived and died and you are now holding its imprint from so long ago. Many people I know have had a moment in their life where the concept of how fleeting our lives are really struck them to their core. Often it comes with a change in outlook on the value of their remaining time on the planet.

[zeristor]

Like seeing ammonite fossil shells in the paving stone of shopping centres.

I wonder where fossilised humans will turn up in 200 million years...

[ChuckMcM]

I wondered if you could actually do something not quite like that, which is create a quartz version of yourself and then embed that in a chunk of concrete or something and bury it so that 10,000 years from now someone could "unpack" it.