{"id":3783,"date":"2009-06-18T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T03:54:18","slug":"future-fossil-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/future-fossil-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Fossil of the Technium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLast year I posted an ode to the <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2008\/12\/welcome_to_the.php\">Anthropocene<\/a> &#8212; the period in Earth&#8217;s long history when humans are the dominant geological force. That would be the last 20,000 years or so. One anthropocenic question brought up by Jan Zalasiewicz, a geologist from the University of Leicester, is, as he puts it, &#8220;What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?.&#8221;&#160; He speculates that we&#8217;ll leave <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2009\/01\/fossil_cities.php\">fossil cities<\/a> as the debris of our civilization is pressed into rock.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/TechniumFossil.sm.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Techniumfossil.Sm\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReader Brett Lovgren was reminded on this on a walk along Wassenaar Beach in the Netherlands a few weeks ago. He tells me: &#8220;We were on a field trip&#160; with my son&#8217;s 2nd grade class from the American School of the Hague. &#160;His science teacher had them identifying the shells, jellyfish and seaweed that wash up on the beach. The kids found this bit of barnacle encrusted plastic cup. &#160;It made me feel like an archaeologist from the future discovering a layer of the Technium.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I posted an ode to the Anthropocene &#8212; the period in Earth&#8217;s long history when humans are the dominant geological force. That would be the last 20,000 years or so. One anthropocenic question brought up by Jan Zalasiewicz, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/future-fossil-o\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}