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>nobody will ever bother working on how to salvage the crudely frozen/vitrified.

I disagree, I think salvaging them will be of tremendous historical interest. Imagine if we could bring back a peasant from the 1400s. Medieval scholars would be all over that.




Perhaps, I guess it depends on how much of the data we generate (tweets, video, blogs, text messages etc) survives into the future.


And how big/well-resourced history departments are in the future: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/20/in-the-future-everyone...




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