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None, but if I knew that my great great grandfather/grandmother made a joke in 1913, I'd want to read it. You forget that we'll likely be able to identify linea
by tenaciousDaniel 7y ago
None, but if I knew that my great great grandfather/grandmother made a joke in 1913, I'd want to read it. You forget that we'll likely be able to identify lineage if we manage to retain this data.
In the future, there could be actual history classes where students have to trace their own family and read the words of their ancestors.
- jfk13 7y agoI can't imagine wanting to spend the time to trawl through inane trivia from generations of my ancestors. Just because there's a genetic link between me and my great-great-grandfather, it doesn't follow that he was an interesting person. We already have so much information about the past that we need historians to curate and organise it, and present us with the interesting and relevant fragments in a coherent fashion; otherwise, we're just drowning in data. It's only going to get worse.