The document discusses the Memory of Mankind (MOM) project, which aims to archive information from the 21st century in a physical archive located deep within a salt mine in Austria. MOM uses durable ceramic tablets and microfilm to store texts, images, and data that will be preserved for over 1 million years. Individuals and institutions are invited to contribute content to MOM and help ensure knowledge from today is not lost. MOM also distributes ceramic tokens around the world that act as keys to locating the archive, with the goal of leaving a record of our time for distant future generations or species to discover.
Ideation for Resilience: Prepared presentation (Sample work)Heath Rezabek
Note: This session was originally commissioned to be part of the 2015 London Environmental Challenge program at Imperial College. Regrettably, the session had to be postponed.
I include it here as sample work and a representative example of my approach to interdisciplinary ideation, innovation, and creative session leadership.
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumi...Martin Kalfatovic
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumination in Libraries and Museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 9th Shanghai International Library Forum. Shanghai, China. 19 October 2018.
Budget cuts are no longer to be considered a merely temporary accident, so we have to face the fact that ours is now a post-affluent society, where vast primadonna-like museal programmes (and architectures) are going to be a thing of the past, and sustainability, as well as vernacular architectures, are the things we should take into focus.
This also means downsizing infrastructures and tools. In documentation and communication - of single artefacts, collections, and museum programmes - we can consider the role of humbler (and less expensive) tools.
Like social upheaval’ dissemination in the Maghreb and in the Middle East has effectively demonstrated, a smartphone can be a very powerful tool. If we think of the fact that museum professionals are very often already networked, we can easily imagine a new, “lighter” and less expensive process of collections’ documentation, based on already existing know-how.
This presentation has been prepared for a meeting organized by ICOM and the City of Bologna Museums Authority, focused on the preservation of virtual memories (19 May 2011). Further details about the meeting can be found on twitter at #memorievirtuali.
If not stated otherwise, all pictures are by the author.
Since the end of the last century, the digital revolution has modified our way of understanding the contents and forms of mythical narratives in film and videogames. In these pages I will deal with the impact of this digital revolution on traditional myths (classic, Norse, biblical). I will also reflect on the relationship between myth, science fiction and fantasy in TV series and videogames.
Ideation for Resilience: Prepared presentation (Sample work)Heath Rezabek
Note: This session was originally commissioned to be part of the 2015 London Environmental Challenge program at Imperial College. Regrettably, the session had to be postponed.
I include it here as sample work and a representative example of my approach to interdisciplinary ideation, innovation, and creative session leadership.
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumi...Martin Kalfatovic
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumination in Libraries and Museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 9th Shanghai International Library Forum. Shanghai, China. 19 October 2018.
Budget cuts are no longer to be considered a merely temporary accident, so we have to face the fact that ours is now a post-affluent society, where vast primadonna-like museal programmes (and architectures) are going to be a thing of the past, and sustainability, as well as vernacular architectures, are the things we should take into focus.
This also means downsizing infrastructures and tools. In documentation and communication - of single artefacts, collections, and museum programmes - we can consider the role of humbler (and less expensive) tools.
Like social upheaval’ dissemination in the Maghreb and in the Middle East has effectively demonstrated, a smartphone can be a very powerful tool. If we think of the fact that museum professionals are very often already networked, we can easily imagine a new, “lighter” and less expensive process of collections’ documentation, based on already existing know-how.
This presentation has been prepared for a meeting organized by ICOM and the City of Bologna Museums Authority, focused on the preservation of virtual memories (19 May 2011). Further details about the meeting can be found on twitter at #memorievirtuali.
If not stated otherwise, all pictures are by the author.
Since the end of the last century, the digital revolution has modified our way of understanding the contents and forms of mythical narratives in film and videogames. In these pages I will deal with the impact of this digital revolution on traditional myths (classic, Norse, biblical). I will also reflect on the relationship between myth, science fiction and fantasy in TV series and videogames.
This report is a product of Arup Foresight + Research + Innovation. The Arup F+R+I Team identifies and monitors the trends and issues likely to have a significant impact upon the built environment and society at large. We research and raise awareness about the major challenges affecting the built environment and their implications. We help clients think more creatively about the long-term future, and manage risk and uncertainty more effectively.
Valedictory Lecture
Making Thinking Visible in Complex Times
Prof Simon Buckingham Shum
This event took place on 15th July 2014 at 4:00pm (15:00 GMT)
Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
In 1968 Doug Engelbart gave “The Mother of All Demos”: a disruptive technology lab had quietly invented the mouse, collaborative on-screen editing, hyperlinks, video conferencing, and much more. This was the start of the paradigm shift, still unfolding: computers were no longer to be low level number crunchers, but might mediate and mould the highest forms of human thinking, both individual and collective. In this talk I review nearly 19 years in KMi chasing this vision with many colleagues, inventing tools for making dialogue, argument and learning processes visible in different ways. How do we harness such tools to tackle, not aggravate, the fundamental challenge facing the educational system, and its graduates: to think broadly and deeply, and to thrive amidst profound uncertainty and complexity? These are the hallmarks of the OU — and indeed, all true education from primary school onwards.
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Keynote address for the cultural heritage hackathon Coding da Vinci Schleswig-Holstein, 11 June 2021
https://codingdavinci.de/de/events/schleswig-holstein
@CdVSH21
@codingdavinci
Cover slide: still from Lucio Arese, Les Dieux Changeants, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHmAj0QrHk&t=1s
Presentation delivered at 'Shaping Access', Berlin 13 November 2014
http://www.zugang-gestalten.de/shaping-access-more-responsibility-for-cultural-heritage/
Video of presentation: http://vimeo.com/112799188
The Interactive culture in the XXI centuryFabio Viola
What does it mean culture today? Where, how, why the younger generations are producing and consuming "culture"? Instagram, Wattpad, videogames are models and rivals of museums and theaters today? Slides from the Fabio Viola's talk at the European Commission meeting in Prague about the Future of Heritage.
Sixteen years ago, American Libraries published Mark Y. Herring’s essay “Ten Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library” (April 2001). Technology has improved exponentially since then—social media didn’t even exist yet. But even the smartest phone’s intelligence is limited by paywalls, Twitter trolls, fake news, and other hazards of online life. Here are 10 reasons why libraries are still better than the internet.
1. Libraries are safer spaces.
2. Libraries respect history.
3. Librarians digitize influential primary sources.
4. Librarians are leaders in increasing online access to scholarly information.
5. Librarians are publishers.
6. Libraries host makerspaces.
7. Librarians can help you sort the real news from the fake.
8. Librarians guide you to exactly what you need.
9. Librarians do not track your reading or search history to sell you things.
10. Librarians do not censor.
LIBRARY
Is a collection of sources ofinformation and similar resources,made accessible to a definedcommunity for reference orborrowing
A library’s collection can include …
1. Books
2. Periodicals
3. Newspaper
4. Manuscript
5. Films
6. Maps
7. Document
8. CD
9. Cassettes
10. Videotapes
11. DVD
12. Blu-Ray Disc
13. E-books
14. Audio Books
Original title: Technology Transforming Media, Transforming Us.
This is a Keynote (the app) talk I gave at Webvisions' 2013 NYC Conference in March. It's my perspective on mass communication/media from the Stone Age to today.
A presentation about the traces left behind on twitter about the conference "...Margarida Fonseca
Follow the Money was a conference about the
role that databases and spreadsheets
play in our lives: "everything we do leaves traces behind".
And this presentation is about the traces left behind on twitter, the official back channel of the conference.
Libraries, museums and archives – so-called memory institutions – are undergoing intense technological transformations in the way they catalog, preserve and publish cultural heritage information. The timeline, scope, and outcome of this technological advancement seem to be very different in these fields, due to the different mission and structure of these institutions.
However, some of the underlying tools, specific goals, methodologies and data models seem to be shared among most of the cultural institutions who are invested in technological advancement.
In this informal, open discussion and Q/A among the panelists and with the audience, the participants will engage in an exchange of use cases in their own specific fields, trying to find a common ground where cultural heritage institutions can collaborate to establish standards that are valid for all cultural expressions.
Traditionally our technology has spoken for us, but these days the products have become so sophisticated that the technology is becoming imperceptible. With that step; our roles in them, the careers they present and the business opportunities all diminish. Out of sight is out of mind; and out of mind is de-prioritised.
This is credited to Timothy_Samara.
It is concerned with the Importance of Desktop Publishing:
Desktop publishing software is important because it increases productivity, improves the appearance of all produced documents, reduces production costs, allows for easy customization of all types of projects, and allows you to manage both the presentation and its content.
The original version of this presentation has been presented in Italian at the ArtFilmFestival 2011 in Asolo (Italy), on 23 August 2011, together with the paper "Musei Domani - Lo spettro della memoria" - posted as well here on SlideShare.
Focus of this presentation (and of the related document) is: what are we going to do with our fading (digital) documentation of museums' (or libraries', or archives') collections?
This report is a product of Arup Foresight + Research + Innovation. The Arup F+R+I Team identifies and monitors the trends and issues likely to have a significant impact upon the built environment and society at large. We research and raise awareness about the major challenges affecting the built environment and their implications. We help clients think more creatively about the long-term future, and manage risk and uncertainty more effectively.
Valedictory Lecture
Making Thinking Visible in Complex Times
Prof Simon Buckingham Shum
This event took place on 15th July 2014 at 4:00pm (15:00 GMT)
Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
In 1968 Doug Engelbart gave “The Mother of All Demos”: a disruptive technology lab had quietly invented the mouse, collaborative on-screen editing, hyperlinks, video conferencing, and much more. This was the start of the paradigm shift, still unfolding: computers were no longer to be low level number crunchers, but might mediate and mould the highest forms of human thinking, both individual and collective. In this talk I review nearly 19 years in KMi chasing this vision with many colleagues, inventing tools for making dialogue, argument and learning processes visible in different ways. How do we harness such tools to tackle, not aggravate, the fundamental challenge facing the educational system, and its graduates: to think broadly and deeply, and to thrive amidst profound uncertainty and complexity? These are the hallmarks of the OU — and indeed, all true education from primary school onwards.
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Keynote address for the cultural heritage hackathon Coding da Vinci Schleswig-Holstein, 11 June 2021
https://codingdavinci.de/de/events/schleswig-holstein
@CdVSH21
@codingdavinci
Cover slide: still from Lucio Arese, Les Dieux Changeants, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHmAj0QrHk&t=1s
Presentation delivered at 'Shaping Access', Berlin 13 November 2014
http://www.zugang-gestalten.de/shaping-access-more-responsibility-for-cultural-heritage/
Video of presentation: http://vimeo.com/112799188
The Interactive culture in the XXI centuryFabio Viola
What does it mean culture today? Where, how, why the younger generations are producing and consuming "culture"? Instagram, Wattpad, videogames are models and rivals of museums and theaters today? Slides from the Fabio Viola's talk at the European Commission meeting in Prague about the Future of Heritage.
Sixteen years ago, American Libraries published Mark Y. Herring’s essay “Ten Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library” (April 2001). Technology has improved exponentially since then—social media didn’t even exist yet. But even the smartest phone’s intelligence is limited by paywalls, Twitter trolls, fake news, and other hazards of online life. Here are 10 reasons why libraries are still better than the internet.
1. Libraries are safer spaces.
2. Libraries respect history.
3. Librarians digitize influential primary sources.
4. Librarians are leaders in increasing online access to scholarly information.
5. Librarians are publishers.
6. Libraries host makerspaces.
7. Librarians can help you sort the real news from the fake.
8. Librarians guide you to exactly what you need.
9. Librarians do not track your reading or search history to sell you things.
10. Librarians do not censor.
LIBRARY
Is a collection of sources ofinformation and similar resources,made accessible to a definedcommunity for reference orborrowing
A library’s collection can include …
1. Books
2. Periodicals
3. Newspaper
4. Manuscript
5. Films
6. Maps
7. Document
8. CD
9. Cassettes
10. Videotapes
11. DVD
12. Blu-Ray Disc
13. E-books
14. Audio Books
Original title: Technology Transforming Media, Transforming Us.
This is a Keynote (the app) talk I gave at Webvisions' 2013 NYC Conference in March. It's my perspective on mass communication/media from the Stone Age to today.
A presentation about the traces left behind on twitter about the conference "...Margarida Fonseca
Follow the Money was a conference about the
role that databases and spreadsheets
play in our lives: "everything we do leaves traces behind".
And this presentation is about the traces left behind on twitter, the official back channel of the conference.
Libraries, museums and archives – so-called memory institutions – are undergoing intense technological transformations in the way they catalog, preserve and publish cultural heritage information. The timeline, scope, and outcome of this technological advancement seem to be very different in these fields, due to the different mission and structure of these institutions.
However, some of the underlying tools, specific goals, methodologies and data models seem to be shared among most of the cultural institutions who are invested in technological advancement.
In this informal, open discussion and Q/A among the panelists and with the audience, the participants will engage in an exchange of use cases in their own specific fields, trying to find a common ground where cultural heritage institutions can collaborate to establish standards that are valid for all cultural expressions.
Traditionally our technology has spoken for us, but these days the products have become so sophisticated that the technology is becoming imperceptible. With that step; our roles in them, the careers they present and the business opportunities all diminish. Out of sight is out of mind; and out of mind is de-prioritised.
This is credited to Timothy_Samara.
It is concerned with the Importance of Desktop Publishing:
Desktop publishing software is important because it increases productivity, improves the appearance of all produced documents, reduces production costs, allows for easy customization of all types of projects, and allows you to manage both the presentation and its content.
The original version of this presentation has been presented in Italian at the ArtFilmFestival 2011 in Asolo (Italy), on 23 August 2011, together with the paper "Musei Domani - Lo spettro della memoria" - posted as well here on SlideShare.
Focus of this presentation (and of the related document) is: what are we going to do with our fading (digital) documentation of museums' (or libraries', or archives') collections?
Industrial Training at Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL)MdTanvirMahtab2
This presentation is about the working procedure of Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL). A Govt. owned Company of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation under Ministry of Industries.
Welcome to WIPAC Monthly the magazine brought to you by the LinkedIn Group Water Industry Process Automation & Control.
In this month's edition, along with this month's industry news to celebrate the 13 years since the group was created we have articles including
A case study of the used of Advanced Process Control at the Wastewater Treatment works at Lleida in Spain
A look back on an article on smart wastewater networks in order to see how the industry has measured up in the interim around the adoption of Digital Transformation in the Water Industry.
Cosmetic shop management system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
Buying new cosmetic products is difficult. It can even be scary for those who have sensitive skin and are prone to skin trouble. The information needed to alleviate this problem is on the back of each product, but it's thought to interpret those ingredient lists unless you have a background in chemistry.
Instead of buying and hoping for the best, we can use data science to help us predict which products may be good fits for us. It includes various function programs to do the above mentioned tasks.
Data file handling has been effectively used in the program.
The automated cosmetic shop management system should deal with the automation of general workflow and administration process of the shop. The main processes of the system focus on customer's request where the system is able to search the most appropriate products and deliver it to the customers. It should help the employees to quickly identify the list of cosmetic product that have reached the minimum quantity and also keep a track of expired date for each cosmetic product. It should help the employees to find the rack number in which the product is placed.It is also Faster and more efficient way.
Understanding Inductive Bias in Machine LearningSUTEJAS
This presentation explores the concept of inductive bias in machine learning. It explains how algorithms come with built-in assumptions and preferences that guide the learning process. You'll learn about the different types of inductive bias and how they can impact the performance and generalizability of machine learning models.
The presentation also covers the positive and negative aspects of inductive bias, along with strategies for mitigating potential drawbacks. We'll explore examples of how bias manifests in algorithms like neural networks and decision trees.
By understanding inductive bias, you can gain valuable insights into how machine learning models work and make informed decisions when building and deploying them.
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Saudi Arabia stands as a titan in the global energy landscape, renowned for its abundant oil and gas resources. It's the largest exporter of petroleum and holds some of the world's most significant reserves. Let's delve into the top 10 oil and gas projects shaping Saudi Arabia's energy future in 2024.
Hierarchical Digital Twin of a Naval Power SystemKerry Sado
A hierarchical digital twin of a Naval DC power system has been developed and experimentally verified. Similar to other state-of-the-art digital twins, this technology creates a digital replica of the physical system executed in real-time or faster, which can modify hardware controls. However, its advantage stems from distributing computational efforts by utilizing a hierarchical structure composed of lower-level digital twin blocks and a higher-level system digital twin. Each digital twin block is associated with a physical subsystem of the hardware and communicates with a singular system digital twin, which creates a system-level response. By extracting information from each level of the hierarchy, power system controls of the hardware were reconfigured autonomously. This hierarchical digital twin development offers several advantages over other digital twins, particularly in the field of naval power systems. The hierarchical structure allows for greater computational efficiency and scalability while the ability to autonomously reconfigure hardware controls offers increased flexibility and responsiveness. The hierarchical decomposition and models utilized were well aligned with the physical twin, as indicated by the maximum deviations between the developed digital twin hierarchy and the hardware.
Harnessing WebAssembly for Real-time Stateless Streaming PipelinesChristina Lin
Traditionally, dealing with real-time data pipelines has involved significant overhead, even for straightforward tasks like data transformation or masking. However, in this talk, we’ll venture into the dynamic realm of WebAssembly (WASM) and discover how it can revolutionize the creation of stateless streaming pipelines within a Kafka (Redpanda) broker. These pipelines are adept at managing low-latency, high-data-volume scenarios.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Student information management system project report ii.pdf
Mom explained short text
1.
2. DATA FRAGMENTS - two examples:
There are still texts existing which are 2000 years old.
But unfortunatelly we only know 0,1 % of the antique literature. 1500 years ago nearly the entire
antique knowledge disappeared.
Common achievements such as writing and reading vanished within 3 generations.
Christianisation and the Migration Period caused this intellectual devastation.
We dont know, if these 0,1 % were the most important texts.
The last antique library in Constantinopel was destroyed in a fire and more than 100 000 books with it.
A century later the first known medieval library contained about 100 books.
0 100 200 300 400 500 600-100
1
3. photo of monitor with unprocessed signal TV broadcast quality
Due to limited bandwidth the video signal from the Apollo 11 moonwalk had a low framerate and had to be converted to fit
into the public TV standard. In 1969 this conversion was accomplished by simply pointing a TV-camera to a monitor with an
imaginable degraded quality.
Photographs of the control center in Houston show monitors displaying much more details as we know today.
We still have plenty of copies of the TV broadcasting of the moonlanding, but the only tape with the original signal and
superior quality was erased in the 80s due to a major tape shortage for the NASA Landsat program.
A tape that cost billions to be produced was deleted by carelessness.
2
4. COMING DATA LOSS
Compared to the data loss in the past, the coming information loss will be massive
and beyond comparison.
Our global digital library has two major threats:
Data inflation and unpaid bills.
5. -10000 0-30000
20162016
2016
Currently every minute 600 hours of videos are uploaded in youtube.
The overall uploads of 2016 result in a total length of 35.000 years.
A printed portfolio of the daily uploaded instagram-photos would range from London to San Franciso.
Or in other words:
To get a one second glimpse at every single photo of that day will take you 2 and a half years.
6. CO2
CO2
Along with emails stored in perpetuity in data centers, the entire facebook, kitty-fotos galore and a
gigantic quantity of HD pornmovies, the volume of data is huge and it inflates with accelerated speed.
In 2016 the electricity used for the internet will be twice as much as Germany´s annual consumption.
The carbon emission caused by emails is half the amount caused by air traffic.
7. Still unthinkable - but not absurd to imagine - that in the future data-deletion becomes a green planet issue.
A profound data erasure, executed by algorithms.
The image our grand-grand children will have from us will be created by machines.
8. There is a lot of - exclusively online - publishing: Protocols of summits and conferences are
distributed solely online. Scientists and institutes save their research-data in cloud accounts.
What happens to a cloud account when its holder ceases to exist?
The cloud provider automatically deletes it after a couple of unpaid bills.
INVOICE INVOICE
unpaid
9. Protocols of scientific conferences are comparable to the letters scientists wrote to one another 100 years ago.
We still can read the correspondance between Einstein and Bohr.
Will there be a chance to read today´s scientists´ correspondance in 100 years?
Will blogs - the instant mirror of what moves us today - still be readable then?
What about all the cloud contents by individuals?
Do we believe that onedrive, dropbox, icloud, wordpress, will exist for one century?
Will anybody in 500 years gain an insight into our communication of tweets, shares and posts?
In a distance of 1500 years the data fragment of the 21st century will be far away from 0,1%...
It´s very likely that in the long term the only traces of our present activities will be: global warming, nuclear waste and red bull cans.
Facing the 99% of rubbish and irrelvant content - a random fragment will surely produce an extremely distorted reflection of our era.
10.
11. HALLSTATT
We ought to leave something like an overall picture of our
time. A collection of information that can explain to our
descendants how and what we live for.
Memory of Mankind - MOM - is a physical, analogue and
durable archive of today´s stories and knowledge. Images on
ceramic tablets and texts on ceramic microfilm are stored
deep in the oldest saltmine in the UNESCO world heritage site
of Hallstatt in Austria.
12. MOM is designed to keep our intellectual - but also our trivial heritage for a million years.
13. MOM can be retrieved in 100 years when our grand-grand children realize, that they have no original information any
more from the 21st century - or in hundredthousands of years - serving as a time capsule for the distant future.
MOM`s data media are resistant against influences, which normally destroy any other kind of information carrier.
The plasticine structure of the salt rock seals the archive within a few decades so it is protected
against natural or human forces.
14. 200x200x1 mm 1mm
The data carriers are specially developed for this project and they are the world´s most durable and resistant data carriers
ever, without the use of precious materials. They are directly readable without technical equipemt except a good loupe.
Of course the data density is not comparable to digital data carriers, but even storing the whole national library would not
reach the limits of MOM.
15. Burying even an immense amount of durable data carriers would make no sense if the chance for accidental
discovery is microscopically small.
Therefore a solid ceramic token is scattered around the globe as a marker for the MOM archive. Everybody who
takes part in MOM gets one.
This 5cm token serves as a key to MOM.
It can only be comprehended by a society with at least the same technical understanding as we have since the late
80s. This acts as a barrier that MOM only will be retrieved by finders who definitely can derive benefit from it.
The embossed graphics on this very limited space enables the indication of one particular spot on the planet with an
accuracy of some 10 meters.
16. Since languages in the future will be substantially different from our present languages MOM will contain a deciphering tool.
The concept for it has been developed by linguistic institutes. This tool consists of a pictionary: Thousands of photos directly
labeld with the respective words, combined with the theoretical volumes such as thesaurus, dictionaries, phrases, grammar,
etc
It allows a precise understanding of our present languages. Some particular information, stored in MOM should indeed be
comprehended unambiguously.
17. What should an archive of this
dimension include? What is
essential enough to be stored for
eternity? Who decides on the
contents?
MOM is an open project,
everybody can take part in.
Individuals can design entire MOM
tablets or just upload text, which
they find worth to be preserved,
including a brief explanation why.
A scientific advisory board
conceives projects, which fills
MOM with content, for example
collecting and saving the most
widely read blogs, the 1000 most
important books or inviting
leading magazins and newspapers
worldwide to submit their daily
editorials.
18. MOM is already used as an award: Documenting exceptional performances is a way to describe our presence.
19. Various institutions which focus on long term archiving and they use and will use MOM for their purposes:
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, New Horizons Message, Mauthausen Memorial, the long now rosetta project,
and of course: Museums.
20. Our global human activities have such a long term impact on the planet, so at least we should keep
the information about these activities for a similar period: The information about places with toxic or
nuclear waste is one of the most essential parts of MOM.
There are already collaborations with the NEA in Paris and the nuclear industry in Sweden.
21. MOM is the keyhole through coming scientists, the future human
race or other species will watch - and judge our presence.
22. There is currently a growing public awareness for the need of something durable. Initiatives dealing with long term
thinking/archiving luckily find MOM.
MOM is initially funded by people who recognised the importance of leaving something durable. Smaller and larger
donations helped to create MOM, to build the vault in the mountain with the first hundreds of tablets, to develop the
ceramic microfilm and to make various contacts in order to establish MOM scientifically with an international advisory
board.
MOM is now at the take off ramp and big players are welcome on board to help to launch this time capsule with its
precious payload into the future .
23. To keep the memory on MOM alive, every 50 years all holders of a token are invited to gather and to determine if
the content of MOM is still known, and to decide if it needs extensions.
50 years is a period from grandparents to grandchildren, a ceremonial passing on of the token as a kind of „holy grail
of MOM”. By this MOM can be seen as a present to the future - a gift for our grandchildren.
We don´t create MOM out of pride or vanity.
But we think we have - just like any generation - some pretty good stories to tell.
If we don´t write them down, they very likely will get lost - faster as we dare to think.