What do you want to preserve for eternity?
Some stories simply need to be eternalized... | “In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.” Thomas Carlyle | Which books ought to be still known in 10.000 years in the future? | Books are ships which pass through the vast seas of time. - Francis Bacon
The most durable data carriers (in the form of ceramic tablets), stored deep in the oldest salt mine in the world will carry our stories hundreds of thousand of years into the future.
Everyone can participate within drawing this portrait of our era: You can contribute a personal story, your favorite poem, or newspaper articles which describe our problems, visions or our daily life.
To give everyone on the globe the chance (regardless of origin or income) to contribute to MOM, the storing of texts in this archive is free of charge.
You can also support MOM with funds or purchase your personal tablet with texts and images combined (and receive a duplicate which you can pass on to your own offspring!)
The digital age carries with it the risk that records will either become swiftly illegible or completely vanish. (admittedly for 99% of the internet’s contents this is presumably not a …
A durable data carrier is crucial. We use high-tech ceramic to store text and images permanently. In addition, the legibility needs to be guaranteed. The information in MOM is directly …
First of all, MOM is not a backup of our knowledge. Knowledge gets modified and expands. Societies in the future who are capabale of discovering MOM will be at least …
A buried treasure such as the MOM archive needs to be marked somehow in order to be retrievable in the future. If we would find something comparable today, we would …
The addressees of MOM are clearly identified: A society which has reached at least a technologically industrialized level similar to our own. Any society, whose educational foundation is based upon …
Which digital records from our present days will be found in the future? 1 – The Big Oblivion Data traffic, data processing, and data storage requires energy. Currently the internet …
In order to keep the memory of the MOM archive alive, we established a memorial procedure; every 50 years, starting in 2070, all holders of a token should gather and …
The content of MOM is split into three Sections (see: >> What gets selected for MOM) The first category (automatically collected contents) is under-construction and some newspapers have already agreed …
An adequate place for a long term storage of that kind has some crucial specifications:
The saltmine in Hallstatt/Austria fulfills these demands. Beside it is the oldest saltmine in the world with 7000 years of perpetual mining, being part of the UNESCO world heritage site Hallstatt/Dachstein.
A couple of people help with ideas, advice, inspiration, experise and administration. Meet some here:
Martin KunzeFounder & Initiator of MOM Within a generation we wittness our worlds fundamental change. So many stories to be told, some with pride, some with regret, some are touching, and - to be honest - some of them at least embarrassing. MOM tells our story, complete, not whitewashed. If we dont write it down now, it will probably be lost forever.
Dr. Claudia Theune-VogtProfessor of Historical Archeology MOM is not bound to these aims. This time capsule however contains documents, which seem not worthwhile being preserved on the first sight, but representing a reflection of ourselves, of our time and therefore being of cultural-historic value on the long term.
Claudio PescatoreResearch Affiliate Linnaeus University It was Claudio´s idea to create a mechanism in the presence to keep the memory of MOM alive: The ceremonial handover of the token from grandparents to grandchildren and the gathering of MOM tokens holders every 50 years.
Michael I RhindMOM-Ambassador United Kingdom The Memory of Mankind involves everyone around the world, fundamentally this means we all have a part to play in protection and preservation of the worlds history. For this aim to work we must use every possible source available to record and protect as much as we can for future generations. We cannot predict what will happen in the future so we must protect our history now
Jon LombergProject Manager One Earth Message The Memory of Mankind Project is an expression of human creativity and the desire to leave something of ourselves for distant generations to discover and from which they may learn. Now the project has a handsomely designed new website that describes the project and the opportunities for public participation. Just thinking about this project provides a time perspective that puts the events of our own time into proper historical context.
Dr. Tibor PacherLeader Team PuliSpace / CEO When we try to look back into the past, we are often confronted with the lack of tangible information, privately and in general as well. The Memory of Mankind project offers the opportunity to create together something about our times really to grasp, in the truest sense of the word. Thus it will become to a true treasury chamber for our followers - and perhaps even to a colourful business card for ET. On the Moon, too!
Sofie TunbrantSwedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) The nuclear industry needs to forward information about waste repositories into the future in persistent, accessible and comprehensible ways. MOM offers a possibility to complement archives, markers and the human memory.
Prof. Cornelius HoltorfDepartment of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden The Memory of Mankind is a unique archaeological collection and heritage to be preserved for the benefit of future generations. This is a grand project that poses important questions about the legacies we leave behind and ultimately what being human is all about.
Data traffic needs a lot of energy and therefore data deletion will become a green planet issue: automated erasure of out-of-date-content and deletion of accounts. In 100 years, our most …
What will a random 1% fragment of our present data contain? We know 0,1 to 1% (still discussed) of the Antiquity´s texts. An elaborated article describes the loss of books …
1. Internet´s carbon emission 3,4 Billion people are online and generate data traffic. Data traffic uses energy, and this causes carbon emission. Due to the growing community, HD and increasing …
