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As I was looking at random Youtube videos, I began thinking about the way our current time will be seen by anthropologists and historians. The biggest thing that has changed in the past 50 years is the scope of what has been committed to video recordings. Never has a time period been so well visually documented from the inane to world-changing events.
Every generation seems to talk about the 'good old days' of the past, but most of that is merely the product of flawed memory. Now however, with everything from news archives to blogs or even goats on trampolines being preserved in data-centers, there may not be very much plausible deniability left for our generation. We've entered the age of carbon history. In a hundred years, assuming no major worldwide catastrophes, people will be able to see the entirety of our lives full color and motion. Granted by then, visual display technology will be unrecognizable to us, and 2D video will be a relic from the past. That doesn't change though, the innumerable windows we are leaving into our era.
How terrifying. naRutofAn1526 will be our ambassador to the future.
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