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The conceit of this SF site/project is that
there has been some sort of "rupture" on earth (second ice
age, alien annihilation, etc.) and that sometime in the far
future an excavation has been made of a site ( a ruined
house), at which several bizarre artifacts have been
uncovered. Essentially this is an exercise in estranging the
present, and for this "exhibition" we have decided to focus
on the way we presently store information. Put simply, in
the past when one uncovered an obelisk, clay tablet ,
papyrus it was fairly clear when one was confronted with a
species of information delivery. But, what would one do when
confronted with a CD-ROM (for instance): how would one go
about accessing the data on it, or even come to the
conclusion that it housed vast quantities of information? In
an attempt to deal with the extreme perishablity of the way
we currently store information (as well as the split between
inner and outer that it introduces), we have created this
site, and invite all users to participate in our version of
Sunday Afternoon Science Fiction by offering your own
(humorous, serious, mystical, etc.) interpretation of the
artifacts exhibited on these pages.
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