Summary
How do we prepare for the distant future? Helen Keen meets the people who try to.
If our tech society continues then we can leave data for future generations in huge, mundane quantities, detailing our every tweet and Facebook 'like'. But how long could this information be stored? And if society as we know it ends, will our achievements vanish with it? How do we plan for and protect those who will be our distant descendants and yet may have hopes, fears, languages, beliefs, even religions that we simply cannot predict? What if anything can we, should we, pass on?
Picture: Filing cabinets, Credit: fotofrog
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Cladie Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
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| 0:37.0 | If you're the type of person who's ever wondered anything |
| 0:40.0 | about the world around you, then we are the podcast for you. |
| 0:43.7 | We take your questions on anything scientific and scour the globe for answers. |
| 0:48.3 | That's crowd science which you can find wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:51.9 | I'll get out of your ears now as you were. |
| 0:54.0 | Ah, what's this? It, it must have been hidden here thousands of years ago. |
| 1:06.0 | Is that writing? |
| 1:08.0 | What does it say? |
| 1:10.0 | Is it a message? |
| 1:11.0 | What, to have been preserved for so long, it must have been very important. |
| 1:15.0 | Maybe a ritual object? |
| 1:17.0 | You think everything is a ritual object? |
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