Analog technology helps preserve languages.

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See "Last Words: The Dying of Languages," May/June 2001, p. 34

The Rosetta Project, begun by The Long Now Foundation to preserve disappearing languages, has selected an almost old-fashioned technology for the job: nickel disks. The three-inch disks are micro-etched with key information about 1,000 of Earth's 7,000 languages. Each disk has a storage capacity equal to about 30,000 pages of...