User:David Vasquez

After looking over the various Wikicity sites, this one is my favorite.

I posted the following comments in The Goals section on the main user talk page:

"This project reminds me of the Long Now movement.

If nuclear weapons are ever used again, or some natural disaster wipes most of us out, the survivors will need the contents of a site like this (etched on platinum?) to rebuild civilization.

Although, if most of us are wiped out in a nuclear war, perhaps the engineering instructions for how to build atomic weapons would be considered taboo?

One other consideration - in ten thousand years, English might not even be in use anymore, nor any of the other languages in current use.

Perhaps the steps on this site need to be presented pictographically, so that language-barriers will not prevent comprehension by anyone who discovers this content in the far future.

Given all the secrecy which surrounds government efforts to archive this type of information, this site could become a trans-national movement to make it possible to "reboot" civilization on a global scale, should it ever become necessary.

By the way, the acid test for this project is to explain how to make a pencil.

Before we try to explain how to build a space shuttle, how about explaining how to make the very tool one needs to write down the instructions in the first place.

Computers won't be available when civilization reboots. So we'll need a few pencils.

I have no idea how pencils are made. I bet no one person possesses all of the knowledge necesary to make one."

&mdash; 17:02, 22 Feb 2005 (GMT)