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The whole point he's making that we do not know what might be valuable to future civilizations. We simply cannot foresee the way they would study our culture, i
by stingraycharles 12y ago
The whole point he's making that we do not know what might be valuable to future civilizations. We simply cannot foresee the way they would study our culture, in the same way the ancient civilizations would not be able to comprehend our current civilization.
- brudgers 12y agoWe don't preserve muddy door matts today "for posterity." That we can't know exactly what will be important in the future doesn't mean we can't reasonably predict what won't be.