HOW TO DEPLOY YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN JUST 13.8 BILLION YEARS Ingrid Burrington | @ lifewinning | lifewinning.com
HOW TO DEPLOY YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN JUST 13.8 BILLION YEARS
CARL KNEW!!
STEP ONE TO COMPUTER: MAKE A UNIVERSE
STEP TWO TO COMPUTER: VARIOUS EXPLODING STARS
Step Four STEP THREE TO COMPUTER: PLATE TECTONICS BABY
STEP FOUR TO COMPUTER: Step Five IT’S ALIVE!!!
STEP FIVE TO COMPUTER: CIVILIZATIONS I GUESS
A FEW HUMAN THINGS THAT HAPPEN BEFORE COMPUTER: • Tools • Sappho • Domesticated animals • The concept of “robots” (TY • Language (Spoken) • Supply chains (but we didn’t • Agriculture Josef Č apek) • Maths • Libraries • Lots of genocide really call them that yet exactly) • Pyramids somehow • Dancing • Class stratification • The Enlightenment I guess • A Magna Carta • Concepts of an afterlife • The metric system • Marcel Duchamp • Language (Written) • Nuclear weapons • Time zones • Universal su ff rage • Organized religion(s) • Heliocentrism • Aviation • A Bronze Age • The Protestant Reformation • The Aztecs • Guns • Music (just like, as a thing) • The printing press • Figuring out how to make fire • A distinction between alchemy • Islam • The transatlantic slave trade • Weaving • Dentistry and chemistry • Railroads • The Bauhaus • The French Revolution • The Hippocratic oath • Petroleum production • Psychology • The concept of “the patriarchy” • Boats • Imperialism • Pollution • The Silk Road (the first one) • Principles of navigation • Capitalism • Cave paintings of Lascaux • Motion pictures • Astronomy • Communism • Witchcraft • Opium Wars • Hinduism • Confucianism • Fused quartz glassware • Stock markets • Oligarchies • A couple of world wars • Mormons • The Bureau of Reclamation • Wheels, motherfucker!!
OK NOW WE MIGHT BE READY TO COMPUTER!!
NOTHING WORKS THE INTERNET AS THE MOST LIKE THIS AMBITIOUS TERRAFORMING PROJECT OF CIVILIZATION
BASICALLY EVERY BANK STILL RUNNING COBOL RIGHT NOW IS KRANG
ACTUALLY, MAYBE EVERYTHING IS KRANG
TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF TECHNICAL DEBT (PROBABLY MORE TBH)
WHAT TIMESCALE ARE YOU WORKING ON
WHAT’S YOUR TEN THOUSAND YEAR MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE
THANK YOU Ingrid Burrington | @ lifewinning | lifewinning.com
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