Donations

Donations for what?

What do we need donations for? We need them for the cost of the books being on metal plates. We have special requirements for such, and the cost is quite high. One special requirement is that we don't store as much information on the disc as technology allows. While 100,000 pages of data can be stored on a two inch disc, and read by a computer or electron microscope, that does us and future generations no good.

We need a metal disc or page that contains perhaps 10,000 pages of data, such that could be read with nothing but a simple lense or series of lenses that do not require power or computers. Something that could be read by future generations regardless as to their technological prowess.

We are estimating that it would cost around $1,000 for one disc or page that contains the entirety of the 12th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Harvard Five Foot Shelf of Knowledge Series. Neverminding the several thousand dollars to convert part of a basement into a fairly impregnable vault for it. That first disc would also contain the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible. One can see then that as a first start, that would be a valuable disc to have.

The Encyclopedia Britannica of that edition is generally regarded as the finest ever produced, and contains nearly the sum total of knowledge of mankind for it's time. One could have a 19th century level of technology with just that. The Harvard Five Foot Shelf of Knowledge Series is a fifty book set that was commissioned by the President of Harvard University around the same time, the early 20th century. It is said to be the equivalent of a liberal arts education at Harvard as it was then.

With those two sets, and Shakespeare and the Bible as two very popular books, one could confidently assert that they had the vast majority of Western man's intellectual and cultural writings up to the early 20th century. That one disc, in a pinch, could serve well for any future rebuilding.

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Tax Deductions

While we are a registered non-profit, we are not currently a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. Your donations are not tax deductible. We expect that to change by 02012.