I was just thinking how five hundred years in the future, if we are still around, learning about today will be much more easy than learning about five hundred years ago, today. It probably will also be more interesting; we will clearly have technology far beyond that of a DVD, but regardless a clear, digital image of a time five hundred years in the past will beat anything we can give of five hundred years in our past.

Speaking of which, it makes me wonder what the standard in media and recording will be by that time....but we can never know.

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But that brings the questions, "What if there were to be a huge disater, that perhaps could demolish most humans and records of the past? Would we still know what happened to our ancestors?".

I think the standard media in 500 years will use a method of storing kind of like current DVD's and CD's, which the information stored in tiny "slots" on the media, but the media will be a more 3-D concept, such as maybe recording to the air, somehow.

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(Edited by DoomMaker at 1:30 pm on Aug. 14, 2006)

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Technology will make sure of that.

But if we were, what would be taught would still be a little fraction of what actually happened.  

You will, now, have to  make sure that what gets recorded actually makes it to the future.  

And people in the future will have to dig it up to learn random things about the past, our present.  Also, hopefully, there will be ways of reading the material.  VHS players will be so so outdated.

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For thousands of years, we've always known what's occurred on the national level.  We know about all the huge events.  But as you get closer and closer to our times, you learn more about the actual lives of the people who lived during that era and what it was like to live back then.

As technology progresses, documenting our ways of life will become more and more easy, and easier to understand for future generations.  In 500 years, I'd imagine that people would have a fairly good idea of what it would be like to live in our time (though due to cultural shifts and changes in general beliefs and values, it may be a little skewed).

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It is a pretty interesting thought, which I've pondered myself a few times before as well.

For thousands of years, we've always known what's occurred on the national level.  We know about all the huge events.  But as you get closer and closer to our times, you learn more about the actual lives of the people who lived during that era and what it was like to live back then.

As technology progresses, documenting our ways of life will become more and more easy, and easier to understand for future generations.  In 500 years, I'd imagine that people would have a fairly good idea of what it would be like to live in our time (though due to cultural shifts and changes in general beliefs and values, it may be a little skewed).

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Yeah. To think of it, there may be a grand computer database that eventually forms using an accumilation of footage, articles, interviews, and so much more that  provides an ongoing view of what life has been like through the ages, since about this time period. Before that might be a bit easier than us studying five hundred years ago, but before about 1900 it will not be much different, aside from the fact that the world was further along in 1850 than 1450.

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If anything, the history they get will be a strawman of what it really was. Just like history in general! VHS doesn't last more then a decade. Cds start to go in 15 years (the 100 year is a lie) and Dvds, good question. harddrive storage is a joke. No way it will last 500 years. perhaps they will find old newspapers, photographs and letters.

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Post edited at 12:05 am on Sep. 23, 2006 by MrCarrot

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