Re: Stewart Brand's The Clock of the Long Now

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 01:06:06 MST


|We could build it, hide it in a warehouse somewhere inconspicuous (think of
|the storage facility in the pentagon with the baby aliens etc, in the
|X-Files), and add a webserver, with a webpage telling the whole story (and
|the current time). Don't give it a domain name, and make sure that it is
|only linked to by AltaVista.
|
|Now THAT would take some advanced future technology to find!

You are in error.

Once uses a traceroute program to see the nearest network the device connects
to, and then one follows the routing information. At the last network one can
simply follow the cable or whatever.



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