"According to his biographer, Michael Murray, he began a book called “Janus” in 2001, that “was to have been a view of present-day culture by an archaeologist o

"According to his biographer, Michael Murray, he began a book called “Janus” in 2001, that “was to have been a view of present-day culture by an archaeologist of the thirtieth century.” In 2008, dissatisfied, he put it aside." I think Stanislaw Lem had a couple of stabs at that, although he can't probably be accused of being wholly serious. That may turn out to be the best way to go about it, anyway.