How cool will history be in the future? They will have writings and photographs of people from every day life from the 1990s and onward at least. Whereas we only have texts and bad quality photographs from this century. Imagine we had photographs of medieval times. And in 500 years people will have photographs and videos and writings of us. It will be a whole new way of studying history! Do you have thoughts on this???
2006-10-24 07:23:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
history will be much easier to prove factually for those studying it. that will change history in the fact that this modern history won't have so much debate over theories since there is much more factual evidence. it will become more philosophy and critic orientated. that is what happened with art history starting in the 1900's. there is so much more information captured.
bad side is that it leaves less to the imagination and mystery, which is part of the reason ancient history is so fascinating to so many people & historians.
2006-10-24 07:50:39 · answer #1 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some historians bemoan the fact that much communication is now done by telephone or IM for which there is not usually a permanent record. Also, to counter the points you made, there will be so many pictures that it may be difficult to wade through them. So,there are plusses and minuses. The real question is will anybody care about history. Many people now seem to think that history is what happened in their lifetimes. Ask people who the best president in US history was and often you get Reagan, Kennedy, Clinton and (Heaven knows why) GW Bush.
2006-10-24 14:37:52 · answer #2 · answered by Ace Librarian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's cool to think about things like that. 500 years will probably see technology jump to the point where our technology today seems analogous to medieval technology. I mean, look at the technology over the last 10 years. We've seen the advent of digital cameras which can greatly enhance photographs. 500 years could see the development of holographic pictures!
2006-10-24 14:37:46 · answer #3 · answered by Brandon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the rate we're going, there is no future.
History repeats itself constantly, why?
we're all insane.
2006-10-24 15:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by eg_ansel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋