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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Earth Will Soon Have a Black Box to Chronicle Humanity’s Downfall [SingularityHub, December 2021]

Title:
Earth Will Soon Have a Black Box to Chronicle Humanity’s Downfall 
 
Author:
Vanessa Bates Ramirez 
 
Published:
SingularityHub, 9 December 20211
 
From the article:
If the world as we know it comes to an end (maybe even starting with an earthquake, birds and snakes and airplanes), future generations will have access to a vault containing duplicates of seed samples from the world’s crop collections, a frozen Noah’s Ark of animal DNA to bring species back from extinction, and if a new initiative pans out as intended, a black box to record how it all went down. 

This week saw the launch of Earth's Black Box, a well-intentioned but somewhat morbid project of questionable value in Tasmania, Australia.