If we reduce the existing theory of cyclical development of civilization to one sentence, it will sound like this: “Any civilization, as a person goes through the stage of origin in its development, heyday, decline, and then death as a result of demographic crisis, environmental disaster, global war. “Supporters these theories are convinced that in the distant past on Earth there were several great civilizations, but they all perished in the result of some kind of collapse exactly when they reached, it seemed the peak of its development and were on the approaches to development deep space. Every 7000 years Confirmation of such their hypotheses are known to be found in myths and legends various peoples, as well as in some ancient written sources. Recently, a lot of information has appeared. that the ancient Indian epics testify: preceding current civilization possessed aircraft unique scientific knowledge and nuclear weapons. We are not the first on Earth highly developed civilization 
Photo from open sources According to the Jewish mystic doctrine – Kabbalah – God erases from the face of the Earth every 7000 years existing civilization and creates a new one. And this period, perhaps and actually roughly corresponds to the duration every cycle of the existence of civilization. And here there are the questions that critics of these hypotheses. If in the prehistoric past they really existed great, comparable to ours in terms of development or even superior to its civilization, why aren’t there any traces? Why – if you believe these theories – after the collapse of those who managed to survive, had to start all over from scratch ?! The Evolution of Information Media Suppose Some mysterious monuments unearthed by archaeologists are truly the work of hands ancient civilizations, but where did those cultures accumulated spiritual wealth – works of scientists, philosophers, poets, finally?! After all, without all this, there is no civilization … Oddly enough, but it is precisely the technologies that have emerged in recent years that involuntarily give answers to these questions. Looking around the history of development modern humanity, you can see clearly visible the tendency to achieve maximum compactness of media information. Stone steles with letters written on them went into the past, replaced by clay tablets, papyrus and parchment. On the paper books replaced the parchment scrolls … the same way pass and mastered by mankind ways of recording audio and video information. Only a few of those born in recent decades, seen first hand the old bulky tape recorders with huge bobbins. Why are there bobbins! Already gone into seemingly distant cassette and VCRs, and CDs that replaced them, on which the contents of the average urban libraries are gradually giving way to miniature USB flash drives, able to accommodate a truly gigantic array of information. How will be the next stage in the development of information technology, does not know no one. But it’s already clear that future technologies will surpass the most daring speculation of science fiction writers. The logic of this trend obvious: as civilization develops, so does the volume the information accumulated by her, and the invention of ever more compact, capacious and convenient storage media is becoming an integral part this development. But it is easy to notice that at the same time with compactness the fragility of information carriers is also growing. For example, enough scratch the CD – and you can no longer read what is on it is recorded. Almost the same thing happens if, say, you accidentally drop the USB flash drive into a cup of hot coffee. Moreover, there is a need for specific readers Information: to listen to an audio cassette, you need a cassette record player; To view the contents of a disk or flash drive, so that the computer is equipped with special devices for their reading, etc. The principle of operation of these devices is universal – on it can easily be used to create other media and systems reading information. For example, give the flash drive a ring shape, and a device for connecting it to a computer – a miniature peg. How to extract? And here we come to one of the possible answers to the question of why spiritual monuments did not reach us cultures of great prehistoric civilizations. Let’s imagine that at the beginning of the 20th century a certain archaeologist found a CD made say pure silicon, and determined that the age of the artifact is, for example, 50 thousand years. What do you think he interpreted would its purpose? What is the function of the pyramids? May be we just don’t know how to read information from them? 
Photos from open sources. Of course, to begin with, he was surprised. It would be that people in ancient times already learned how to make objects of such an ideal round shape, and then I would use my imagination. Perhaps he would suggest that this is an amulet, made by the ancient masters of a tribe worshiping the moon or To the sun (the hole in the middle was intended to thread a string of animal skin through such an amulet and wear it on the neck). Or he would hypothesize that we are talking about a knife extremely unusual shape … In any case, the likelihood that an archaeologist I would understand that in front of him is a unique information carrier created highly developed civilization that existed long before the Sumerian and Akkadian, extremely small. But even if we assume that our archaeologist possesses the scientific intuition of Dan Brown’s heroes and guesses drive designation, so what? After all, read the contents he will not be able to CD – for this you need a special A device designed to read such CDs. But who can guarantee that something like this has not happened in the past: archaeologists either pass by information media created by supercivilizations of antiquity, or not able to correctly interpret their findings. The same thing is likely to happen. with archaeologists of the distant future who unearth ruins modern civilization. Finally, you need to remember that today a significant array of information accumulated by mankind is stored in Networks. The Internet, it should be noted, is also quite a natural result progress. His invention was predicted by Jules Verne in a novel “Paris in the 20th Century” back in 1863, and then with similar foresights Other science fiction writers also performed. What will remain after Internet We pay attention: already on the Internet today many works of art, scientific articles, monographs, which are simply not in the paper version. It’s clear that over the years this the tendency will intensify, and with physical aging paper books and the disappearance of traditional Internet libraries will become the only keeper of the entire treasury created by mankind knowledge and world literature. Already today, the need for correspondence on paper. Almost all letters exist in virtual space and are emailed so our grandchildren will never read love messages that have turned yellow from time to time and diaries of their grandparents. But the matter, again, is not only in letters. As you know, the Internet has changed the traditional attitude towards mastering knowledge. Scholars and encyclopaedists disappeared as a class: why keep in mind a bunch of information, if necessary with it in any moment can be found by asking the right question in one of search engines ?! Now we come to the main answer to the questions, where are they, the notorious traces of previous civilizations, and why after their death, did the survivors have to start all over from scratch? Imagine that, if not tomorrow, but, say, after a few decades for one reason or another there will be a global collapse and The network will collapse. This is all the more likely, because it is computer networks become the main goal of a future war – with the conclusion of their failure army and country control becomes impossible and inevitable chaos sets in. However, a complete collapse of the Internet can happen. and for some other reason – due to the fall of a meteorite, a nuclear war and the like. There may be information from fairy tales about a saucer with a bulk apple that shows different events, an attempt to talk about an ancient computer? 
Photo from open sources Anyway, let’s say that in only a handful of people will survive the global catastrophe. Among they will be quite intelligent, very educated in concepts people of their time, but in order to revive civilization, they not enough … internet. Without him, they are not able to not only create simple technical devices, but also put together a stool. The only thing left for them is to find a heavier stick in the forest and try to start hunting for any animals. Then someone guesses that a stone can be attached to a stick – and it will turn out where more convenient weapon for hunting … As you can see, everything is really you have to start from scratch precisely because the physical disaster is inevitably accompanied by information. Wherein for some time, the survivors are confident that, whatever were the scale of the disaster, all the people and their knowledge Could not die – somewhere there were computers with stored in them unique information, as well as those who were called up by these machines service. They try to tell their children and grandchildren about it – and so after generations, myths about the Olympic gods, Shambhala, are born, Belovodye and other mysterious places, as well as about heaven chariots, a saucer with a bulk apple and everything else. Early or late these tales become true, but the higher heights reach new civilization, the faster it approaches its own death. In conclusion, I want to remind you that this is nothing more than about the hypothesis. Let her judge whether she has a right to exist reader. Peter LUKIMSON
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