Human history is often taught and understood through written records, documents, inscriptions, literature, and legal texts that chronicle the lives, decisions,
The title is very misleading. What it means is “for the first 97% of Homo Sapiens’ existence, there was no writing”, which just states something everyone more or less knows or has a feeling about. It says nothing about how much of what has happened in history has actually been recorded. I mean how would you even measure that? What is 100%? That would mean “all information”, so at least the atomic configuration of the whole earth. Even for a single instant, that would need more memory capacity than is available to all data centers combined (and its not a close call, you would need a data center 100+ times the size of earth to store that information)
Even for a single instant, that would need more memory capacity than is available to all data centers combined
Sure, but we only need to know the exact state of all of the mass and energy in the universe at that one point in time and we can extrapolate from there in both directions.
I know this is a joke, but: no you can’t. Chaotic dynamics become unpredictable very quickly with minor noise/errors, and quantum effects like e.g. hawking radiation are plenty enough noise to screw up your projections.
I’m surprised it’s 3%, that seems like a lot
The title is very misleading. What it means is “for the first 97% of Homo Sapiens’ existence, there was no writing”, which just states something everyone more or less knows or has a feeling about. It says nothing about how much of what has happened in history has actually been recorded. I mean how would you even measure that? What is 100%? That would mean “all information”, so at least the atomic configuration of the whole earth. Even for a single instant, that would need more memory capacity than is available to all data centers combined (and its not a close call, you would need a data center 100+ times the size of earth to store that information)
Sure, but we only need to know the exact state of all of the mass and energy in the universe at that one point in time and we can extrapolate from there in both directions.
I know this is a joke, but: no you can’t. Chaotic dynamics become unpredictable very quickly with minor noise/errors, and quantum effects like e.g. hawking radiation are plenty enough noise to screw up your projections.
Yeah well you know that’s just like uhh your opinion, man.
Naw, just get better compression algorithm bro /s
Unfortunately, I don’t document every one of my poop’s turds
5000 years of recorded history vs 166,666 years of pre-history.
This is also only time-based. 7% of all humans ever born are alive today.