Thesis Statement: I am convinced an iPod, children’s picture book, and a Big Mac hold the future’s key to preserving the history of the world as we currently know it.
Access to an iPod will give insight into both humans’ technological achievements and culture.
The current generation iPod demonstrates our ability to consolidate multiple devices into one.
From well preserved pictures and videos, foreign life can get an accurate depiction of current humans, as well as be able to hear and observe our language and movements.
Children’s picture books are the key to understanding the lost language of English.
Children use picture books with simple labeled objects when learning to read.
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Even in an increasingly digital world, we continue to collect things like crows, filling junk drawers and bulletin boards with all manner of unnecessary “treasures”. The question is, if the preservation of human knowledge was at stake, what among our bedside tables and kitchen cabinets can stand to tell of our achievements? I am convinced an iPod, children’s picture book, and a Big Mac hold the future’s key to preserving the history of the world Children in the developed world have grown up with smart devices as an integral part of their lives, with the iPod being at the forefront of technology in this millennium. The original iPod revolutionized music with its storage capabilities. In the distant future, any society advanced enough to power one will immediately gain access to thousands of songs. Just like how Americans enjoy Korean pop song “Gangam Style”, an understanding of human language is not necessary for extraterrestrial explorers to see how humans experience and find enjoyment from a catchy beat. More recent iPods have even more potential. The current generation iPod touch manages to consolidate many devices into one. The discovery of an iPod touch will not just unearth our music, but photos, videos, a flashlight, compass, TV, and even a calendar as well. Imagine what we might know about the Mayans if their calendar had contained their …show more content…
Assuming English will die out, it will be important to leave behind some means of deciphering our alphabet. What better way to educate aliens than the means by which our own species learns, with picture books. Just as children learn to associate a picture of a train with words written under it, any civilization with a writing system of its own can piece together that the large machines left behind are identified by the symbols under its corresponding image in the book. Words like “car” and “house” coupled with a picture comparable to objects still remaining on Earth will serve as a simplistic Rosetta Stone, and bring revival to the English