WHAT IS THE OBELISK?
The Obelisk is a participatory data-art thought experiment: what would it mean to materialize a finite information object so large that it escapes every practical human scale?
- Target
- 10100 bytes (one googol bytes)
- Contribution
- One era-appropriate physical medium
- Available eras
- FIDO/BBS · DOS · RACK 2000 · NOW
- Progress
- Calculated exactly from the selected medium
Every custodian is anonymous. The drive, disk, and write are simulated. Only aggregate contribution statistics are retained; no name, email, account, fingerprint, or other personal information is requested or stored.
NODE 0000 is the origin node maintained by the authors of the concept. Other custodians are invited to fork the open protocol, operate independent numbered nodes, keep their own local history, and optionally join a future aggregate network.
Concept and authorship: Ilia Kuranov. Project documentation DOI: [ZENODO DOI PENDING]