Consider that we now live in a literal dark age. With billionaires relentlessly rotting the internet, there will soon be fewer historical records of this era than there are from basically any other time. All of this will be forgotten, a corrupted few bits in an ocean of spam in a landfill.

In 30 years, it will be 2054. The people then will know less about this time period than people in 1999 knew about 1969, or 1499.

I have been compiling art resources lately, since the internet has been exploding, and let me tell you, there are so many dead links. All of the communal knowledge that might have been preserved - perhaps only in handwritten notes or limited press, sure, but still preserved - all utterly evaporated.

Well, a lot is saved on hard drives around the world still. The memories aren't gone, they're just being scattered. And it's going to take a lot of archival work recovering it.

One of the benefits of being neurodivergent: I’ve got a Flickr account with 70k photos, screenshots of classic tweets saved to multiple places, spreadsheets of every hill I’m climbed / gig gone to. Other folk will get to 2060 and not have a clue how/when Thing X happened (or even if it happened?)