The Atomic Age began with two explosions that burned thousands alive. Today, the same knowledge helps millions survive. In the future, it may take us to the stars.
I think the main problems about LLMs are about who controls it, its ethical uses and environmental costs, not the tech itself.
The advantages are too great to be ignored and Luddite efforts to stop them are doomed.
Maybe regulation and transparency are currently more useful than childish refusals of an inevitable future.
Your 1990s files are slowly turning into magnetic dust. Leontien Talboom at Cambridge University Library is leading a rescue mission for our digital past. She uses hobbyist tools to pull data from moldy disks that standard drives can't touch. She even recovered lost lectures by Stephen Hawking. You can use her Copy That Floppy! guide to save your own archives. It requires specialized hardware like the Greaseweazle to capture raw magnetic pulses. Don't wait until the iron oxide flakes off for good. Check your storage boxes for those chunky rectangles before they become silent plastic.
🧠 Magnetic decay destroys data after 20 years.
⚡ The Greaseweazle captures raw flux signals.
🎓 Cambridge recovered Stephen Hawking's notes.
🔍 Follow the Copy That Floppy! guide now.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/floppy-disk-archivist-project/
#TechHistory #DataArchiving #VintageTech
Microsoft Project Silica
"...developing the world’s first storage technology designed and built from the media up to address humanity’s need for a long-term, sustainable storage technology. We store data in quartz glass: a low-cost, durable WORM media that is electromagnetic field-proof, and offers lifetimes of tens to hundreds of thousands of years."
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-silica/
https://youtu.be/-rfEYd4NGQg?si=hP_10QHxkpDXIeax
Kryptonian tech!😉
DürAir
Portable and user-friendly Lidar + high-quality cameras combos are definitely the next step in archaeological documentation.
"DürAir, a mobile augmented reality application for documentation in cultural heritage."
"A limited beta testing program will be opened to heritage researchers and professionals. Registrations will open in Spring 2026."
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Despite working daily with the Past, it is quite common to find archaeologists who love quality sci-fi.
The fact that good authors explore the impact of technological advances/ human material culture in social and evolutionary terms may help explain it.
When it comes to BD and cinema, A. Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud (Mœbius) are truly key figures.
Jodorowsky's Dune
https://youtu.be/m0cJNR8HEw0?si=ot_wbIl2PsktADNb
La Caste des Méta-Barons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabarons
Two perspectives on slavery and women warriors in African history (Nigeria/USA)
It's a cliché among many ‘progressive’ American and European intellectuals to claim that it's up to African researchers and artists to write and tell the history of their continent. Yet when they do so, and present religious, economic, and political realities as complex as those found in Eurasia, it suddenly becomes an inconvenience. (🤫sarcasm )
https://youtu.be/RW87asYGq7g?si=anUTj7CM7KCGvmkG
https://youtu.be/3RDaPV_rJ1Y?si=S9_3hqGNspuvhM0t
Pandoc 📝➡️📄
https://pandoc.org/index.html
Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting documents between markup formats. It helps standardize file formats and generate documents in multiple output formats. Free Software (GPLv3).
Low-tech Magazine 🌱☀️
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
"What is Low-tech Magazine? Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices."
For archaeologists and historians, there is the amazing section "Obsolete Technology" because, in the words of the editors:
"There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society."
Brian Greenberg 
