Was wird bleiben...

What will remain…

What will remain … when mankind has disappeared?
What will be found, and what will it reveal about us? What
will remain from modern technology, from art, from our
social order? The answer: Not much, for a culture which
has vanished cannot be fully explained. What do we leave
behind, what do we keep for our successors? What do we
do to be remembered, to not be forgotten, to remain significant
in the long term? What do we save from our culture,
our art, our technology? We bury time capsules with
documents and objects to be found 100 or 1000 years
later. We try to save our ideas on microfilm and secure
them in an old mine. We collect seeds and deep freeze
them to save them for the future. We build a clock to run
for 10,000 years. We send messages with spacecrafts well
beyond our solar system, so that they can disclose something
about us when we, our civilization and the earth, are
long gone. What will all this really say about us?

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH