Feynman’s Question Suppose that all the knowledge of our civilization was about to be destroyed in some great cataclysm, but we have the opportunity to pass on just one sentence to future generations of people. Assume that some future society will somehow correctly understand the English meaning of this sentence, and they will correctly understand it to be the one item of information that an earlier civilization chose to pass on to them. But you otherwise know nothing about this future society. You’ve been asked to compose the sentence. What should it say?
The Most Important Piece of Knowledge
The Most Important Piece of Knowledge
The Most Important Piece of Knowledge
Feynman’s Question Suppose that all the knowledge of our civilization was about to be destroyed in some great cataclysm, but we have the opportunity to pass on just one sentence to future generations of people. Assume that some future society will somehow correctly understand the English meaning of this sentence, and they will correctly understand it to be the one item of information that an earlier civilization chose to pass on to them. But you otherwise know nothing about this future society. You’ve been asked to compose the sentence. What should it say?