History is long. Long after the time in which anyone can easily recall who was US president in 2014, or what party was in power, or which wars of declining emp

History is long. Long after the time in which anyone can easily recall who was US president in 2014, or what party was in power, or which wars of declining empire were fought, and then long after anyone even cares about that ancient history, and later, long after the whole downward slope of the history of the US is but a footnote of interest to scholars of the transition from second to third millennium, and later still, long after anyone can even find out with any great reliability who was US president in 2014 ... long after all these things are forgotten, the first half of the 21st century will still be clearly recalled as the dawn of the biotech and data era, the coming of age of medicine and computing. Progress in science and technology is really the only thing that matters in the long term. Everything else is just fiddling cultural details. How much do you know or care about the legal disputes of Ur?