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I wonder how future generations will see our digital artefacts, pixelated and 2 dimensional. Old-timey the way we see 1900s film.
by telesilla 3y ago
I wonder how future generations will see our digital artefacts, pixelated and 2 dimensional. Old-timey the way we see 1900s film.
- soperj 3y agoSome early film is more innovative than most film these days.
- verisimi 3y agoDo you think they will be able to access them? They are rather immaterial...
- Tagbert 3y agoFor archeologists, some of the most common and valuable placed to dig are called “middens”. That is an old word that means trash dump. They are a source of tons of information on everyday lives of people of the past.
- verisimi 3y agoRight - but you realise that on computers "trashcans" are just a metaphor? There's no actual digging to be done.
- Archelaos 3y agoThey must have a very different impression of the past than we do. Imagine if we had live footage of Roman emperors or people hunting mammoths.
- b112 3y agoYes! Even movies from the 30s, b+w as they are, show us people 100 years back. Cities 100 years back. And a lot of that is now digitized, and kept by cinema lovers worldwide. We've always had to guess before, wonder, go by (comparatively) rare paintings, which may or may not have artistic changes. Even language has become more static, more uniform, starting with wide spread printed works, then radio, TV, now internet. If I look at works 100 years back, many of them could gave been written today. 150 years? Change becomes more rapid.