Wear a nanoscale archive of all the world’s languages on a necklace

Wear a nanoscale archive of all the world’s languages on a necklace

About 20,000 years ago, deep in the caves of Lascaux, France, paleolithic people painted animals on the walls with spit, fat, and twigs. The paintings were discovered in 1940 and they’ve since contributed to our understanding of humanity. In a similar but more deliberate spirit, The Long Now Foundation—a project that promotes long-term thinking in…