From Ad Rem: Wonder if we'll learn about this technique in my archival methods class.... The New York Times reports that King James version of the New Testament has been written in gold on a chip small enought to fit on the tip of a pencil eraser.
The article notes the truly neat part: as the archive is the text, you don't need a PC to read it. Would this be a way of archiving items the world over? And artifacts like Hammarabi's laws, the Rosetta stone, cuneiform tablets, Mayan texts?
This reminds me of a most interesting way to archive books:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m6/design-lanier.html
"They would translate the contents of every issue of the magazine this year from two-digit computer code (0-1) into four-digit DNA language (A-G-C-T) and then splice that information into the introns of . . . a cockroach."
Now that's innovation. Unpleasant though.
Posted by: Sean Stickle on June 12, 2003 10:53 AMI'm stunned. Especially to then read that they had worked out the interbreeding to preserve ane multiply the text.
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