Looking Back

[whingknutt]

I was pondering modern correspondence recently when I realized that historians 100 years from now may not consider our time to be devoid of useful information on individuals. For the longest time letters were written and kept, often outlasting multiple generations of people, only to be found 100s of years later to shed light on the perceptions and

Comments

[nan0_frog]

What's even scarier is the thought that, if we somehow lose electricity or technology, most people in this day and age could not survive.
I'm hoping things improve not get worse, but it is amazing to think what we have done in such a short period of time.

[chameleonlac]

It's thoughts like those that have made me lose sleep at night... That and the one about when will people understand that we are all human... I think that may take longer, or a bigger enemy than predjudice and greed...

[astralquest]

Well I would have to say that in 30, 40, or 50 years we will not care. At the rate we are going we will either be thinking and worring to much about trying to afford $15/gallon of gas and $10 french fries at McD's, or we a small few of us will be pondering the fall of the US empire. Either way those that are around will be know what they are made of.