Imagine time is infinite, not just out into the future, but also backwards.
Let’s suppose for a moment, that time did not start some 14 Billlion years ago as the great minds of the adult world tells us. Suppose time always was?
Suppose this human history we are living is not the first conscious technological civilization to ever exist?
What’s that? What’s a “technological civilzation”? Well, it’s one like ours of course. One that creates computers and video and space ships.
How many of these wonderous such civilizations have existed in the course of…infinite time?
Well, no one knows of course. None of us is infinitely old you know. Only our hubris is that old.
But you can be sure, there have been trillions. Trillions of civilizations like ours. Trillions of writers as glorious and as unique as Shakespeare! Trillions of artists as genius as Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci! Trillions of Cicero’s! Trillions of computer pioneer geniuses like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs!
And of course, over the course of time, someone has been keeping records of all this. Not perfect records of course. Records get destroyed you know over time. Fires happen. Hard drives fail. Time passes and information gets worn away like cliffs in the desert worn away by the endless winds.
Watch this animation of what happens to the information created by every technological civilization over time. See how the information set grows in diameter?
Now watch when the civilizations home world is destroyed or other catastrophes stop the civilization from surviving. See happens to there information bubble.
Here is all of youtube. Here is all of the internet. Here are all books ever printed. Here is all writing and art on earth. Here are the blockchains of cryptocurrency.
Now let’s see what has happened to other civilizations and their information.
See these civilizatins that last for millenia after millenia? Look at what happens periodically to any data not stored on blockchains? Look at these devestating wars that destroy nearly everything…but the blockchains not only survive…the information there is untouched by the hands of King James or other propagandists forever.
Every artist, writer, genius, or whatever after the blockchains invention gets to have their words held forever, in perfection, (if they are smart enough to record their genius on the most reliable medium to ever exist.., which ironically, they are not yet.) That’s pretty cool.
