Remember Forward is an open-source time capsule system. The Patient Message is a set of laser-engraver-ready SVG plate designs intended to preserve human knowledge through catastrophic events -- readable by a finder 200 to 2,000 years from now with no shared language or cultural context.
This record contains the complete plate set:
219 SVG plates -- 11 knowledge plates (survival through metaphysics) and 4 plates per language across 49 human languages
Print-ready PDF -- all 219 plates, 480x680 pt (5x7 inches), single document for print shop or laser engraving service
Complete archive -- plates + 9 build guides + 8 container design guides (ceramic to granite vault) + project documentation
Languages covered: Hebrew (Biblical, Mishnaic, Yemenite, Modern), Arabic, Tamil, Sanskrit, Bengali, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay/Indonesian, Swahili, Greek, Latin, Persian, Russian, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hausa, Yoruba, Amharic, Somali, Lingala, Tigrinya, Igbo, Shona, Zulu, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Lao, Tagalog, Javanese, Sinhala, Tok Pisin, Quechua, Nahuatl, English, Dutch, Korean, Turkish, German, Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Tibetan, Mongolian, Khmer, Hawaiian, Egyptian Arabic.
Each language includes four plates: (A) Script and writing system, (B) Phonology and sound inventory, (C) Grammar and core vocabulary, (D) Running text with interlinear gloss and bridge phrase.
The Bridge Phrase -- engraved on every Plate D in every language:"This was made for you, freely, by people who remembered forward."
Format: SVG 480x680 px, black strokes only, no fills, no color. Designed for nickel or stainless steel engraving. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 -- copy, adapt, distribute freely.
Project site: rememberforward.orgSource:
github.com CC BY-SA 4.0 -- copy, translate, improve, distribute freely. The knowledge belongs to whoever finds it.