Mass producted fashionable fine printed ceramic tiles
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:16 am
Burnt clay tablets have been the most durable freely readable media in history (sorry for language, English is not my mother language .
There is lots of room: public offices, libraries, universities, private kitchens and bathrooms, lots of wasted wall space.
With modern mass production you could reasonably cheaply cover your walls with beautifully decorated tiles printed with your favorite knowledge. After centuries of frost and water and fires you could still save information of the past from piles of rubbish.
If you number information tiles adequately from basics to end and add HYDIY (how you do it yourself) manuals, you could easily make resilient and not centralized information stores for all around the world. If you use Creative Commons license for creating and organize of knowledge and design of tiles, every ceramic tile factory could use them for free. I don't know how fine detailed printing you can use with ceramic tiles, but I suppose with modern technics you could stuff on a tile quite a lot.
Of course you could add some requirement of certificate to "fire and frost proof and readable after millennium".
There is lots of room: public offices, libraries, universities, private kitchens and bathrooms, lots of wasted wall space.
With modern mass production you could reasonably cheaply cover your walls with beautifully decorated tiles printed with your favorite knowledge. After centuries of frost and water and fires you could still save information of the past from piles of rubbish.
If you number information tiles adequately from basics to end and add HYDIY (how you do it yourself) manuals, you could easily make resilient and not centralized information stores for all around the world. If you use Creative Commons license for creating and organize of knowledge and design of tiles, every ceramic tile factory could use them for free. I don't know how fine detailed printing you can use with ceramic tiles, but I suppose with modern technics you could stuff on a tile quite a lot.
Of course you could add some requirement of certificate to "fire and frost proof and readable after millennium".