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by IHLayman 2392 days ago
Forget DRM, even future Engilsh may be incomprehensible. There is an entire field of study dedicated to finding a way to make our future voice heard, without a good plausible solution, called Nuclear Semiotics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_semiotics).

If we can't effectively warn a future (>10,000 years) generation to stay away from something that may harm or kill them, what chance do we have of making a universally understandable archive of data?