Recording Ourselves

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

-Horace Smith's Ozymandias

CORRECTIONS

7:33 - World Population figure should be 0.27%
8:08 - Digital Voice Recorder should be Sony PCM

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BOOKS

A Brief History Of Diaries by Alexandra Johnson
http://goo.gl/gEaxcQ

Documenting Individual Identity by Caplan and Torpey
http://goo.gl/1e68Wi

LINKS

Humai - Human Resurrection Through AI
http://humaitech.com

Christopher Columbus XX
http://www.thepanamadigest.com/2010/03/christopher-columbus-in-panama-for-tourism-project/
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15283071
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-09/local/me-191_1_christopher-columbus
http://www.ejercito.mde.es/gl/unidades/Toledo/acinf/Noticias/2014/140318.html

Cylinder Seals In Mesopotamia
http://goo.gl/0Ly7oH
http://goo.gl/f3j1zx
http://goo.gl/ztFP7I
http://goo.gl/8Ewf88
http://goo.gl/ylVr2D

Cylinder Seal of Ibni-Sharrum by Denis Pitzsalis
https://goo.gl/hyBqIF

Social Group Size Predicts the Evolution Of Identity
http://goo.gl/yzSdMq

Seikilos Epitaph Performed by Marcus Harvey
https://goo.gl/A7QQiT

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
https://goo.gl/c3jRLG

Literacy - Our World In Data
http://goo.gl/isb4A6

Probate Records
https://goo.gl/FDhT4I

Diaries
http://goo.gl/V09l6

Venus Tan-Tan & Berekhat Ram
http://goo.gl/u0rt7

Paul Revere Probate Record
http://goo.gl/97z89K

Alexander Graham Bell’s Ear Phonautograph
http://goo.gl/jAHFHb
http://goo.gl/xghDYu

Luca Landucci
https://goo.gl/hTnI0l

On The Execution Of Friar Girolamo Savonarola
http://goo.gl/WHq8um

Marcus Aurelius - The Meditations
http://goo.gl/7aQs6

American Indian Oral Tradition Painting
Buffalo Bill Center of the West / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY

The Republic Of Letters
http://goo.gl/jPidq
http://goo.gl/M39odJ

Library Of Congress
https://goo.gl/xgRHHV

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Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber
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Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
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VFX by Eric Langlay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbXVXPFAVI

Additional Animation by Lulu Jiang
http://www.lulujiang.com/

Production Assistant Michael Watson
https://twitter.com/MichaelDWatson1

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi and Jared Tuttle
http://hothead.tv/
http://jaypellizzi.com/

Outro Song: Block Out The Sun by Paul Russel

Special Thanks To Ryan Bond, Noah Tesch, Kathleen Kuiper And The Folks At Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

Special Thanks To The Morgan Library & Museum
http://www.themorgan.org/

Special Thanks To Chris From Zanzibar Land For Creating The Vsauce Cylinder Seal
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Special Thanks To Expert Mesopotamia Joshua J. Mark
http://www.ancient.eu/user/JPryst/

Special Thanks To You.

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