Monday, August 12, 2024

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People were making stencil prints of their hands on cave walls nearly 40,000 years ago. Around the same time, some cave folk were finger fluting in the moonmilk, which, get your mind out of the gutter. My point is, these simple communications from our distant ancestors have stood the test of time. We can read the story of Jacob and Esau from maybe 4,000 years ago to understand the underlying moral, which is don’t accept soup from your younger brother. A 400-year-old Shakespeare play needs no translation. And yet a 40-year-old floppy disc is harder to decipher than Linear B.

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