10,000-Year sounds far away and grand, but it is a bit exaggerated. In fact, about this 10,000-Year, it refers to the kind of maintenance operation instructions that can guide the maintenance operation for ten thousand years. For example, this is like the mobile phone we use every day, which comes with an instruction manual, but this book is to last for 10,000 years to ensure that various facilities and equipment can be accurately maintained during such a long period of time. Think about it, the machines in our daily lives are so small that even the razors we use need operating instructions. But compared with 10,000-Year, it is too "pediatric".
First of all, it is too difficult to design such a ten-thousand-year manual. In such a long time span, people's technology will advance in the future, and the language will also change. For example, if we look at the language written by the ancients a thousand years ago, it is difficult to understand the language, let alone ten thousand years later. Therefore, it is difficult to express the written language in a manual for people ten thousand years later. The writing team needs to be super powerful and requires experts in different fields. At least there must be experts in materials who know how many years the material can stay in the same environment. Civil construction experts also need to come and know how the building structure has changed. A lot of professional knowledge must be comprehensive to make it possible to initially create a "rough" manual. But after all, this does not require results that can be used overnight. The future challenges are simply endless. Let's think about how many times a software APP has been updated a year ago and how much it has changed. It is difficult to describe the difficulty over a long period of time…
Let’s talk about the importance of creating and preserving data. First, you have to be very careful when acquiring data. If the data is not sorted out, a mistake may affect future generations’ understanding, use, maintenance and other follow-up processes of the machines and equipment created by the predecessors. Secondly, the storage carrier is also very critical. Take common paper carriers as an example. They turn yellow and become brittle in just a few decades. We must choose a storage method that is particularly resistant to time and environmental impacts. For example, is there a new material that can allow future generations to read the data in this manual even under various environmental conditions, etc…
Let’s talk about what standards and requirements must be met if someone really compiles such a set of manuals. The content needs to be really accurate without any room for ambiguity, because if something goes wrong, mechanical operation and maintenance may be troublesome ten thousand years later. Moreover, the description should be easy to understand, and it should not be obscure or difficult to understand, such as advanced words, writing methods, etc. A series of formats must also be carefully considered, such as the size of the font, the line spacing, the clarity of the pictures, etc., so that these can cope with the gradual changes of time…
Then you have to spend energy to make certain predictions and planning directions for the future, and you must comprehensively consider the possible impacts of social changes and technological progress as a reference. This is a bit like predicting whether it will rain or shine tomorrow. It is a long-term prediction of how high the technological level of future people may be and how they will build buildings. Collecting relevant data based on judgment that is determined to be used and maintained in the future may be like a science fiction story. However, no matter how difficult it is, it is still worth making relevant exploration efforts. Maybe one day these ideas can really be realized. I personally think it is good for human beings to dare to move in such a sci-fi direction. The future will bring us unlimited surprises and the possibility of providing global procurement services for weak current intelligent products! After all, if you don’t try, you won’t know whether you will succeed. Even if it is difficult, you still have to work hard to try!
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