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It will be obscure and niche historical curiosity that only people researching the period will know in depth, though in their own interpretation like "The 1990
by FrozenVoid 5y ago
It will be obscure and niche
historical curiosity that only people
researching the period will know in depth, though in their own interpretation like "The 1990's aesthetic". Its far more likely,
entire centuries will be culturally
compressed into future equivalent of "Middle Ages" and given
broad-stroke popculture treatment that
will distill major 'art' into modern
form that masses will consume as cultural product(like e.g. Medieval European fantasy genre) in form of
pseudo-historical entertainment.
What will likely survive longest is
factual/historical/technical documents
that have some mundane utility or
significance(treaties/manuals/licenses)
as long as civilization stands.
Art on the other hand is subjective and
tastes/preferences often change with
new generations forming new art.
"Classics" survive largely due institutions promoting their use and will become more obscure without
state support. We have this assumption
that "current culture" is valuable
forever but same could be said of all
past cultural period, that were replaced
by "current year culture": given that
technological progress allows easier culture creation it
would be highly likely a single person
in a future would generate equivalent
of "entire classical culture" tailor-made
for his taste by AI or something similar in a minute, without the need to study or
even know about its existence.