What you’ve done in your life time can eventually be condensed into information 

This information can be erased, artifacts of your actions destroyed over the course of history - the memory of you, gone

Now imagine entire civilizations, collections of folks could be removed from the history this way - crazy

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

was from 10 years ago so can't find now, but read a great NYT article about languages that are actively going extinct. 

Recent archeological finds in Turkey ultra emphasize your cast. fwiw the Morgan Library in NYC is one of the best lost history museum experiences

Ghost Modernity Enthusiast ~
living in the Ether // 📡  /engineering
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So many civilizations that we are losing, dialects, languages we have lost already, and will lose in the future - it is really crazy because losing language means losing the tools to decipher and actively live the culture