Lemme rephrase the prompt a different way. A time-traveler from 2020 has been thrown to 2200. You know their name and biography and need to get a message to them via "regular" time. How would you transmit it without knowing anything about where/how they've landed?https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1322969409481179137 …
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tbh I like how Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone handled it, though that was a different timeframe than only 200 years
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Encode it in religious ritual. Which is the point of religious ritual, as I understand it, but to communicate across uncertain time, and uncertain space. The medium is so dense, tho, that it gets used for multiple messages to multiple addressees.
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Cf. "Enoch Soames." I'd make it part of the lore of the New York Public Library. And/or the British Library.
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You are writing stories again. Yay! Your short story was uo there with Douglas Adams, Le Guin and PKD. I enjoy your oveure but I still think you are missing your biggest possible impact as a scifi author. Any chance of a return of some favourite characters?
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Just takes a lot more time to work out than nonfiction
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How many bits is the message?
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