How will technology change the past?
Posted 07-30-2008 at 07:45 PM by Urban Wheeler
I read an article the other day about historical figures and how we know much about them. Many of these people had kept their correspondence, pictures, letters, etc. It's a look into the mind of famous figures, not only in what they say, but how they write and in their penmanship. Now that there is email, cell phones, digital pictures, and digital video, how will future historians see today? There won't be any hard copies of handwriting samples, no faded polaroids, and no shaky 8mm film footage. I can't imagine that there would be an email archive, stacks of cd's full of jpegs, or libraries of home movies on dvds.
Where will future students get their insight into the minds of significance?
Where will future students get their insight into the minds of significance?
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Same way the Roman and Ottoman Empires did. It won't be an issue, because we won't be here at that point and the information flow for whatever future society remains will be regulated. Sleep tight
Posted 12-06-2008 at 01:32 PM by ROCK SMURF
