I read books from people that died centuries or even millennia ago (ok in their case, their writings are not technically speaking books, but you get the idea). So, a few of us could be remembered as well.
Alas, there is a difference in our days and age: all our creations, text, images and sound, are digital. There is hardly any hardcopy anymore. And I doubt much if any of most of our ‘dematerialized’ content and even worse our cloud stored/streamed content will survive long after the last person stops paying the monthly fee. And even for those that don’t are not cloud -stored, I doubt much will survive more than a few years after we have passed. Digital doesn’t decay well.
For those future human beings, if there are any left to study our times, we could as well be known as the ‘voiceless trash age’, without much artifacts left beside a planet filled with waste and plastic craps. Oh, and piles and piles of dead smartphones, too.
Paper didn’t survive much either. All we have of old documents are copies of copies of copies of copies, really. Even the most important documents- from those making up the Holy Bible to the Magna Carta - we just don’t have.
I read books from people that died centuries or even millennia ago (ok in their case, their writings are not technically speaking books, but you get the idea). So, a few of us could be remembered as well.
Alas, there is a difference in our days and age: all our creations, text, images and sound, are digital. There is hardly any hardcopy anymore. And I doubt much if any of most of our ‘dematerialized’ content and even worse our cloud stored/streamed content will survive long after the last person stops paying the monthly fee. And even for those that don’t are not cloud -stored, I doubt much will survive more than a few years after we have passed. Digital doesn’t decay well.
For those future human beings, if there are any left to study our times, we could as well be known as the ‘voiceless trash age’, without much artifacts left beside a planet filled with waste and plastic craps. Oh, and piles and piles of dead smartphones, too.
Paper didn’t survive much either. All we have of old documents are copies of copies of copies of copies, really. Even the most important documents- from those making up the Holy Bible to the Magna Carta - we just don’t have.