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Svalbard – a seed vault for human knowledge
Svalbard is a usb-stick provisioner (or any other media) for the most crucial knowledge that you would need completely offline. It has preset tiers for the most common media sizes, so you could easily choose to provision an emergency-only 2GB USB stick with the most crucial survival information in a dense format, or pick the 1TB preset to download and provision a whole knowledge archive to a hard drive to kick-start a civilization.
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A solar powered stamp serving this website
There is a movement called permacomputing that asks: what if computing served people and the planet instead of growth? Resilience over disposability, longevity over planned obsolescence, minimalism over scale.