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Indeed it was naive of us not to have called that controversial medieval lull in societal progress "The First Dark Ages".
by Y_Y 11mo ago
Indeed it was naive of us not to have called that controversial medieval lull in societal progress "The First Dark Ages".
- jijijijij 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) The term is up for grabs again. Also, future historians may not categorize medieval times as we do. By then, libraries may have been converted to data centers and historic artifacts burned to fuel GPUs, or destroyed through hallucinated restoration advice. Remaining digital traces may have been exhaustively overwritten by verbose AI prose, or simply lost when AWS introduced generative DNS. In a 1000 years, the only preserved evidence of medieval times may be an LLM's summary of "A Knight's Tale".