This icon just caught my eye while playing around with Blogger. "We are excited to announce that Blogger is now available in three more languages: Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian!"Wow! For a moment it seemed as Google was pitching for the representatives of all ancient cultures. Having stopped to look at this, of course I realized that these languages are spoken even today, but seeing them together somehow provoked in me the image of past civilizations. (This is not to say, of course, that today they are insignificant. Quite on the contrary...)
So I was wondering what it would feel like to see one day that Blogger was out in Maya, Sanskrit and Ancient Egyptian. Having covered the globe geographically, we would read in the news, Google decided to grasp the time aspect of it and catch up with the past as well.
There are scholars out there who have been trying to decipher the Indus valley script or the Khitan writing for decades. But perhaps a motivated team of Google employers would be more successful in this. Maybe it is not scholars and erudition you need but some goal-oriented, dynamic approach coupled with serious computing power. Maybe...
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