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Honestly it's hard to hear about such instances when it's past the birth year of most of our parents. If information isn't actively taught about historic events

Honestly it's hard to hear about such instances when it's past the birth year of most of our parents. If information isn't actively taught about historic events then we're left with the few who actively seek it that will know. I'd be willing to bet that by 2110 most wouldn't have heard of the September 11th attacks simply because the people who experienced it and many of their parents will be gone by then. It'll be relegated to the history books possibly to be replaced with bigger issues that happen later.

veddox 11y ago
While I agree with the first part of your post, I would claim that it will be several centuries before 9/11 is forgotten. The impact it had on the world is just too big to forget within 100 years. 9/11 fundamentally influenced American foreign policy. Think of the Iraqi invasion, the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, heightened airline security. We still learn about the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. It may have been the killing of just one man, but it led to WWI. We still learn about the Black Hole of Calcutta (whether it actually happened or not is a different story). We still learn about the Boston Tea Party. We still learn about the Defenestration of Prague that started the 30 Years War. I could go on...
cm2187 11y ago
The other thing is that events pre-1990s are poorly documented on the internet. Anything happening since yields a lot of material. So I'd expect the internet to introduce a big bias in term of how we percieve history in the future.
tajen 11y ago
That event didn't shape humanity, whereas September 11 did. Here your schoolbook in 2110: "The world was recovering from the fall of the USSR. CIA had reduced operations in the middle east. Apart from minor crisis (Balkans, or 1998 crack in Russia), tensions were appeasing. On September 11, five places in US were hit by simultaneous terrorist attacks, the most famous being NYC with over 3000 deaths. The blame was immediately put on Bin Laden, who was searched for 10 years until his capture in 2011, and globally on Arabic people. USA raised CIA budgets, sent its army to Irak, Afghanistan and Pakistan, created illegal prisons, used torture against what was later proven to be civilians, sprung unprecendented measures for security. In the middle east, the recovery from the Cold War was replaced by a constant storm of missile strikes. Military started using automated robots such as the Predator, spreading a worldwide solidarity among arabic people. In the USA, impacts were high on civilians. In airports, people were arrested for not being able to explain where they were going, military tanks started being used in USA police stations, military methods were used to bust poker parties, killing hundreds of Americans per year, and NSA was in charge of establishing a permanent control on all private communications. In 15 years the most powerful country of the world became able to squash any interior political movement with military methods. Worst of all, a poll showed that 40% of the population believed that September 11 was an attack organized by the CIA to renew the nationalist sentiment." > It'll be relegated to the history books possibly to be replaced with bigger issues that happen later. Maybe not, if it's the root explanation of said later events.
- mycelium 11y ago
  What unexplained event, potentially terrorist, catalyzed the US engagement in the Spanish—American war? Similar sorts of geopolitical consequences, similar timescale... the ease with which you recall the event is likely similar to the ease with which inhabitants of the US in 2115 will recall September 11.
  - Thimothy 11y ago
    For those who don't know, the parallels are unnerving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War#USS_Maine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War#U...

veddox 11y ago

While I agree with the first part of your post, I would claim that it will be several centuries before 9/11 is forgotten. The impact it had on the world is just too big to forget within 100 years. 9/11 fundamentally influenced American foreign policy. Think of the Iraqi invasion, the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, heightened airline security. We still learn about the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. It may have been the killing of just one man, but it led to WWI. We still learn about the Black Hole of Calcutta (whether it actually happened or not is a different story). We still learn about the Boston Tea Party. We still learn about the Defenestration of Prague that started the 30 Years War. I could go on...

cm2187 11y ago

The other thing is that events pre-1990s are poorly documented on the internet. Anything happening since yields a lot of material. So I'd expect the internet to introduce a big bias in term of how we percieve history in the future.

tajen 11y ago

That event didn't shape humanity, whereas September 11 did. Here your schoolbook in 2110: "The world was recovering from the fall of the USSR. CIA had reduced operations in the middle east. Apart from minor crisis (Balkans, or 1998 crack in Russia), tensions were appeasing. On September 11, five places in US were hit by simultaneous terrorist attacks, the most famous being NYC with over 3000 deaths. The blame was immediately put on Bin Laden, who was searched for 10 years until his capture in 2011, and globally on Arabic people. USA raised CIA budgets, sent its army to Irak, Afghanistan and Pakistan, created illegal prisons, used torture against what was later proven to be civilians, sprung unprecendented measures for security. In the middle east, the recovery from the Cold War was replaced by a constant storm of missile strikes. Military started using automated robots such as the Predator, spreading a worldwide solidarity among arabic people. In the USA, impacts were high on civilians. In airports, people were arrested for not being able to explain where they were going, military tanks started being used in USA police stations, military methods were used to bust poker parties, killing hundreds of Americans per year, and NSA was in charge of establishing a permanent control on all private communications. In 15 years the most powerful country of the world became able to squash any interior political movement with military methods. Worst of all, a poll showed that 40% of the population believed that September 11 was an attack organized by the CIA to renew the nationalist sentiment." > It'll be relegated to the history books possibly to be replaced with bigger issues that happen later. Maybe not, if it's the root explanation of said later events.

mycelium 11y ago
What unexplained event, potentially terrorist, catalyzed the US engagement in the Spanish—American war? Similar sorts of geopolitical consequences, similar timescale... the ease with which you recall the event is likely similar to the ease with which inhabitants of the US in 2115 will recall September 11.
- Thimothy 11y ago
  For those who don't know, the parallels are unnerving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War#USS_Maine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War#U...