Doomsday Chests

Project brief v1.2, 22/07/09
"‘Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late.'" - Dr. Martin Luther King Junior

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Beautiful, durable, portable chests containing laser etched metal plates inscribed with the fundamentals of human knowledge. A 21st century Rosetta Stone built to withstand civilisational collapse and keep the light of human knowledge alive in the event of catastrophic systems failure. A self-reproducing "hope chest" for the future, a fireproof Library of Alexandria, a defence against a coming Dark Age.