Earth Log

Earth Log is a long-term writing project: a chronological record of human civilization, written during the lifetime of its author, Marquez Comelab, and inscribed permanently on the BSV blockchain.

Each entry is given a fixed structure — a heavy block of metadata above a body of plain prose — and once an entry is inscribed, the inscription cannot be altered. If an earlier entry is later found to contain an error, the response is not to edit it but to write a new entry that names the correction. The honest record is the full sequence, including the parts the author has since revised his understanding of.

The entries are written for two readerships at once. The first is people alive during the author's lifetime, who want a perspective on what is happening in their world and on the long arc of how it came to be that way. The second is readers — human, post-human, artificial, or otherwise — who may encounter these entries long after the civilization that produced them has changed beyond recognition or ceased to exist.