I predict that cuneiform, as a preservation technology, will go away. Along with palm-leaf books.
Gee, the last cuneiform tablet I saw looked pretty well baked, even more so than my last batch of chocolate chip cookies. The cookies, however, were not as hard as a rock, and thereby disappeared rather quickly. I guess to preserve them I'd have to bake them further.
As for palm leaf books, well, I don't anticipate their preservation into posterity. The palm leaves the kids will wave this Sunday (they don't use them as books, more like skinny paper airplanes) will be saved, but only till next February when they will be burned to ashes for Ash Wednesday. Baked too well, perhaps.
Holly Wilhelm Mills
Amherst, Virginia
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