How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk

Re:How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk by geoduck14 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:32AM (#29239372)

>I wonder if there's any correspondence out there today which will amuse people 3500 years in the future?

I really hope RickRolling is still a think in 3500 years

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Re:How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk by BoxOfRain on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:22PM (#29244383)

I wonder how it might get translated into future languages? There's dozens of Bible translations and while they all say the same thing the tone of the text can be quite different between them, the Valley of the Shadow of Death (KJV) conjures a much more vivid picture than the darkest valley (NIV) for example.

The idea of a future historian painstakingly translating and trying to figure out the "deeper significance" of each phrase in Never Gonna Give You Up makes me smile! Maybe we should print out Wikipedia on the kind of paper the ancient Israelites were using to give them a hand.

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Re:How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk by ovi256 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:20AM (#29317443)

Most probably it will be as alien to people in 3500 years as the babylonian gods are to us.

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