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Imagine being isolated off-grid for an unknown number of years. Maybe you're stuck somewhere like Davidge or Mark Watney; or perhaps you've chosen a life of isolation like Yoda or Obi-Wan Kenobi. Maybe you're a survivor of the $Apocalypse. Wouldn't keeping a journal be a great idea? You could pass on your knowledge, keep track of daily activities, maybe even keep yourself from going insane!
Forget all the wastefulness, extravagance, and complexity of most modern devices, you've got survival to think about! Obviously power usage would be a major concern, but ergonomics, searchability, repairability, and data robustness would be important too. Keeping in mind that this is a dedicated device for journaling and barring the old Russian pencil and paper, what would the best solution look like with off-the-shelf modern technology?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:14PM (2 children)
Have children. Tell them stories. Teach them to pass on these stories to their children. Over time the stories will evolve and take on a life of their own. Perhaps you will be remembered as someone blessed by the gods to have been spared the humility of human existence, to have been more than human, to have had angels speak to you. Then, one day, your children's children's children's children times a thousand and their slaves and captured nations will rampage across the world to slaughter the believers of Pepsi and tear down the mighty KFC Klan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:37PM (1 child)
It's been done..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:53PM
Kinda. They haven't conquered all of Europe yet. Austria is expelling imams and closing mosques