[sparky_]

This presents some interesting thought experiments around digital preservation and emulation. Will there be "software archeologists" in the future, pouring over ancient programming languages and attempting to execute or emulate these environments? It's kind of amusing to imagine a museum centuries in the future, trying to understand how to execute JVM bytecode, let alone how computers of the day worked. The Rosetta Stone of 2500? Hello World.

[danielmarkbruce]

This is a funny thought. In 5000 years, at least some crazy person will think the people of 2022 were wise/profound/intelligent/whatever. They'll look at the code minting NFTs etc, think deep thoughts, write wise sounding blog posts about the wise people of 2022. He/she won't realize we are... a bunch of... not very wise people...

[throwaway0a5e]

We read cuneiform tablets from 5000yr ago and conclude that people were swindlers back then too.

In 5000yr archeologists will read Elon's tweets and conclude that politicians have always sucked.