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You must design an icon for a save function that can be easily understood by anyone in the future. What does that icon look like to you? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by hornywarthogfart to c/[email protected]

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We reached the point (some time ago) where the save icon being a floppy disk makes absolutely no sense to anyone born after a certain time. We could choose a more modern media format and use an icon of that instead, but we would run into the same problem once that media becomes obsolete.

What is a good icon for the function of saving something that can easily be understood by anyone regardless of language or the march of time?

Edit: I know it's not really an answerable question and is hard but the question is what would you come up with if tasks to design an icon. Given the constraints of the question, what are your best shots at coming up with something that fills the requirements and why do you thing it would work?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Are you going for just updating? If so, I'd leave it alone. Culturally it's ubiquitous and doesn't require changing.

If you're thinking more along the lines of a save version of the whole "how do we ensure future people know nuclear waste resides within" then you're gonna run into the same problems they do, symbols change meaning over time. But if I had to pick something that may be obvious to most people, my vote is a scribe and a pen. Most cultures have writing, most cultures with writing save information by writing it down. There are problems, obviously, but if you gotta pick one, that's my vote until I hear a better suggestion.

And for what it's worth, with the nuclear waste sitch, my vote first the atomic priesthood