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If you keep the existing theory of recurrence of development of civilization in a single sentence, it would sound like this: "Every civilization, as people in its development infancy, prosperity, decline and then death due to the demographic crisis, environmental disaster, the global war ".

Supporters of these theories believe that in the distant past on the Earth there were several great civilizations, but all of them died as a result of a collapse just when reached, it seemed at its peak and were on the approaches to the development of deep space.

Every 7,000 years

Confirmation of these hypotheses of their authors, as we know, is found in the myths and legends of different peoples, as well as some of the extant ancient written sources. Recently, a lot of information about what the ancient Indian epic show: civilization had preceded the current aircraft, unique scientific knowledge and nuclear weapons.





According to Jewish mystical teachings - Kabbalah - God every 7,000 years razed the existing civilization and creates a new one. And this time, perhaps, in fact, corresponds approximately to the duration of each cycle of civilization.

And here there are questions that quite rightly asked the critics of these hypotheses. If the prehistoric past, and in fact there were great, comparable to our level of development, or even surpassing its civilization, why they are not left no trace? Why - if you believe these theories - after the collapse of those who managed to survive, had to start "from scratch» ?!

We on Earth is not the first advanced civilization

The evolution of media

For example, some archeologists unearthed mysterious monuments really the handiwork of ancient civilizations, but what happened to the accumulated spiritual wealth of these cultures - the work of scientists, philosophers, poets, finally ?! After all, without it no civilization ...

Oddly enough, but it emerged in recent years, the technology could not help provide answers to these questions. Glancing at the history of modern mankind, we can see a clear tendency towards achieving maximum compactness media. Stone stele with inscriptions stamped on them are gone, replaced by clay tablets, papyrus and parchment. In place of parchment scrolls came to paper books ...

The same path and development of mankind are ways to record audio and video. Few of those who were born in the last decades have seen firsthand the old bulky tape recorders with large spools. Yes there reel! Already gone into seemingly distant past tape and video recorders, and the change of their CDs, which you can easily burn the contents of an average town library, is gradually giving way to a miniature USB-stick that can accommodate a truly huge amount of information. What is the next stage in the development of information technology, no one knows. But it is clear that future technology will surpass the wildest speculation of science fiction writers.

The logic of this trend is clear: with the development of civilization and the increasing volume of information accumulated by it, and the invention is more compact, capacious and comfortable media becomes an integral part of this development.

But it is easy to note that at the same time compact and increases the fragility of the media. For example, it is enough to scratch the CD - and you will not be able to read what is written on it. Almost the same thing happens if, say, you accidentally drop the stick in a cup of hot coffee.

In addition, there is a need for specific devices for reading: to listen to an audio cassette, you need a cassette tape; to view the contents of a disk or flash drive is necessary that the computer is equipped with special devices for their reading, etc. The principle of operation of these devices is universal - based on it, you can easily create other media and reading system information. For example, make a flash drive shape of a ring, and a device for its connection to the computer - a tiny peg.

How to remove?

And here we come to one of the possible answers to the question of why have not survived monuments of spiritual culture of the great prehistoric civilizations. Let's imagine that in the beginning of XX century archaeologist found a CD made from, say, pure silicon, and determined that the age of an artifact is, for example, 50 thousand years. How do you think he would have interpreted its purpose?

Of course, to begin with, he would be surprised that people in ancient times had learned to do things a perfect round shape, and then let it be in the course of their imagination. Perhaps he would have assumed that it was an amulet, manufactured by the ancient masters of the tribe worships the Moon or the Sun (a hole in the middle meant to be put through such an amulet cord of the animal's skin and wear it around your neck). Or to put forward the hypothesis that this is a very unusual shape knife ...

In any case, the likelihood that an archaeologist would have realized that before him - a unique media created highly developed civilization that existed long before the Sumerian and Akkadian, is extremely small.

But even if we assume that our scientific intuition has archaeologist Dan Brown's characters and guess the appointment of the disc, so what? After reading the contents of the CD, it can not - it needs a special device designed for reading such CDs.

But who can guarantee that something like this has happened in the past: archaeologists or pass media created super-civilizations of antiquity, or is not able to correctly interpret their findings. The same is likely to happen to the distant future archaeologists, who excavated the ruins of modern civilization.

Finally, we must remember that today is a substantial body of information accumulated by mankind is stored in the network. Internet, it should be noted, too, it is a natural product of progress. His invention was predicted by Jules Verne in his novel, "Paris in the XX century" back in 1863, and then played with the same previsions and other science fiction writers.

What is the function of the pyramids? Maybe we just do not know how to read from their information?



What will remain after the Internet

Please note: today the Internet there are many works of art, scientific articles, monographs, which simply do not have on paper. It is clear that over the years this trend will intensify, and as the natural aging of paper books, and the disappearance of traditional libraries, the Internet will become the sole custodian of all the treasury of knowledge created by humanity and world literature.

Even today, there is no need in the correspondence on paper. Almost all of the letters exist in the virtual space, and sent by e-mail, so that our grandchildren will never read yellowed love letters and diaries of their grandparents.

But it is, again, not only in letters. As you know, the Internet has changed the traditional attitude to the development of knowledge. Scholars and encyclopedic disappeared as a class: what to keep in mind a lot of information, if necessary, at any time it is available, ask the right questions in one of the search engines ?!

Now we come to the main answer to the question, where are they, notorious traces of previous civilizations, and why after the death of the survivors had to start "from scratch»?

Imagine that even if not tomorrow, but, say, a few decades for various reasons, come the collapse of the global network and fall. This is all the more likely because it is computer networks become the main objective of a future war - with disabling them control of the army and the country becomes impossible and inevitably there comes chaos. However, the complete collapse of the Internet can occur for any other reason - because of the fall of the meteorite, nuclear war, and the like.
Whatever it was, let's say that as a result of a global catastrophe will survive only a handful of people. Among them will be very intelligent, very educated according to the ideas of his time people, but to rebuild civilization, they do not have ... the Internet. Without it, they are not able not only to create a simple technical device, but also a stool to put together. The only thing left for them - is found in the woods stick harder and try to start hunting for any animals. Then someone guesses that can be tied to a stick stone - and you get much more convenient weapon for hunting ...

As you can see, everything really have to start "from scratch", precisely because the physical disaster is inevitably accompanied by the information.

At the same time some time surviving rest assured that, whatever the scale of the disaster, all the people and their accumulated knowledge to die could not - somewhere to stay computers stored therein unique information, as well as those who have been called the car maintenance. They try to tell their children and grandchildren - and so later generations are born myths of the Olympic gods, Shambala, Belovode and other mysterious locations, as well as the celestial chariot, a plate with an oil apple and everything else. Sooner or later, these tales are true story, but the high altitude reaches a new civilization, the faster it is close to his own death.

In conclusion I would like to remind you that it is nothing more than a hypothesis. About that, whether it has a right to exist, let the reader judge.

Peter Lyukimson

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