As copyrighted material, it should be required that a copy be stored with library of Congress.
It used to be that LoC submission was part of the deal with copyright, but somehow we forgot that and important history has already been lost.
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It used to be that LoC submission was part of the deal with copyright, but somehow we forgot that and important history has already been lost.
Nuclear war will probably result in every major metropolitan area in the participating countries being obliterated. But I'm willing to bet that non participating countries will survive with their civilization intact. Especially countries with high food security that can deal with total collapse of international trade.
Modern examples, IMO, are:
- Kessler Syndrome
- Trying to prevent an asteroid hitting the earth
- Nuclear war making the entire earth uninhabitable
It has some criticism, but IMO this is a very simple and effective method. And there are better ideas out there too.
I think we can even build a mechanical machine (like out of buttons connected to stamps/ink) that can create valid threeballots. That way you don't have to explain the instructions.
Another way is to separate young people from old people more effectively. Then you might be able to permit 1m young people to be infected each month with the same hospital budget we have today
The only real physical limit to productivity is our energy input. When we create things, we use energy and time to turn raw materials into useful stuff. Today most of our energy comes from the plants we eat (ie the sun) and from the ground. But we are not close to using even a small fraction of the energy that the sun gives us, so there is still lots of room to grow.
How about recorded lectures and in-person small group recitations? Or longer office hours? Obviously you have to change the methodology of learning a bit, but I'm sure it can be figured out.
In any case undergrad level science lectures are basically a one-sided info dump where the lecturer is lucky to get so much as an ACK that someone is listening.
If you look at inflation only, that is equivalent to saying that workers should have gained absolutely nothing from technology and efficiency gains made in the past 70 years. But obviously we know that workers are far more productive today than they were in the 50s, and the extra productivity per worker is reflected in GDP.
In a sense this is also a good demarcation point. If something is serious enough to be worthy of copyright protection, it's probably worth archiving.
But I do think the world would be a better place if we added new legislation to require platforms to submit archives of their public content. Perhaps LoC should also be funded to scrape the web to capture smaller sites.
> All works under copyright protection that are published in the United States are subject to the mandatory deposit provision of the copyright law
You own copyright over works whether you register them or not. To the best of my understanding that means that you are always required to deposit works when you publish them, whether or not you register your copyright. But IANAL, so I could be way off.
EDIT: Here's a real citation[0]
> What is the difference between mandatory deposit and copyright registration?
> ... Optional registration fulfills mandatory deposit requirements.
So you definitely are required to deposit a copy with LoC whenever you publish/distribute in the US
[0] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html
I'm not actually familiar with the specifics so I don't know whether this is actually a good explanation, but it's at least worth discussing.
Regular protected mode code has built in support that allows easily running 16 bit apps, so maintaining compatibility was a no-brainer. The moment the trade-off changed, Microsoft decided to drop support for 16 bit apps.
Personally, I don't mind that very much, because dosbox is a great product that bridges the gap perfectly.
I'm not entirely sure. People seem to be convinced that climate change will destroy all civilization, but in the distant past the earth has flourished with significantly higher temperatures than what we have today. Once our climate reaches a new equilibrium, humanity will adjust and everything will probably be OK.
And we can be certain that there will be a new equilibrium, otherwise life wouldn't have lasted for hundreds of millions of years.
Isn't our money better spent preparing for the inevitable effects of climate change?