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What on earth makes you think anybody 500 years in the future will give a shit about any of us?
by tom_ 7y ago
What on earth makes you think anybody 500 years in the future will give a shit about any of us?
- salty_biscuits 7y agoHopefully not trying to work out what caused the collapse...
- Noumenon72 7y agoBecause this is the dream time. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time...
- xwdv 7y agoA person 500 years in the future is more likely to give a shit about you than a person 5 minutes from now. Consider your comment, a throwaway one liner of no significance. Most people just read it and move on. But what if, your comment and our comments were all preserved through a series of backups and database migrations over time until eventually they were 500 years old! Imagine some future archaeologist coming across our threads and seeing what people of this day were thinking and saying to each other. Sometimes I stumble across old posts from 2001 or so and read with fascination about what the world used to be like back then. It’d be pretty meta if that future archaeologist was actually the one reading this comment right now. Imagine if we found some text in a 500 year old book somewhere plainly asking the same question “why would people 500 years in the future give a shit about us?” Clearly there will be people in the future that give a shit so long as the human race remains a curious species.
- amelius 7y agoFuture archaeologists will treat our comments as big data.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI make the half joke, half serious caution, that people 500 years from now are going to hate our guts.
- hutzlibu 7y agoI rather think they will pity us. Primitive beings. Always stressed, always scared, or fat and degenerate in drug induced altered realities. Strangled by million rules and obligations in a corrupt system, when technology already had the capabilities to grant a decent life ... without exploiting us, or the planet.
- nervousvarun 7y ago"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
- hutzlibu 7y agoWell, the fallout of our future, like micro plastic garbage on the other hand, is pretty evenly distributed .. Or climate change in general, even though it will hit some areas harder, while others might even get better of.