http://rosettaproject.org/

This project is amazing and has such an important meaning. Language is one of foundations of the human species. Each time we lose a language, we lose a little more cultural diversity. A whole history of different people is lost when we lose a language. The prototype for this project is incredible. A three inch nickel disk has 14,000 pages of information etched onto its surface. Digital obsolescence is a major problem and this project focuses on a new way of archival storage. It is important to preserve these thousands of languages. Each one tells a very different story.