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10-17-2006, 08:46 PM
In the 1930s the British set up the Mass Observation Archive to let ordinary people set down in writing the activities of an ordinary day. #That project inspired another one for October 17 of this year--another ordinary day--for Britons to electronically submit their activities of the day. #You can read more about it here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6048392.stm).
Quote[/b] ]David Cannadine, of the Institute for Historical Research, said: "The wonderful thing about these records is we don't yet know what it is about them that will be interesting in the future.
"It may be that historians in the future will be amazed that on 17 October 2006 we were still eating meat or driving privately owned cars."
What do you think will seem interesting, curious, or shocking to people 100 years from now? #500 years? A thousand?
I think they'll be interested in how we resemble them in our behavior and ways of thinking, although in a thousand years many of the outward cultural, "racial," and lingual differences will have changed quite a bit. #If I were a future archaeologist/anthropoligist I'd probably be interested in such mundane things as hygiene, how parents and kids behave with one another, and what a person would consider significant enough to record in their diary and what they felt was too insignificant to warrant comment (e.g., operating a toilet, using a telephone, driving a car in traffic, etc.).
Quote[/b] ]David Cannadine, of the Institute for Historical Research, said: "The wonderful thing about these records is we don't yet know what it is about them that will be interesting in the future.
"It may be that historians in the future will be amazed that on 17 October 2006 we were still eating meat or driving privately owned cars."
What do you think will seem interesting, curious, or shocking to people 100 years from now? #500 years? A thousand?
I think they'll be interested in how we resemble them in our behavior and ways of thinking, although in a thousand years many of the outward cultural, "racial," and lingual differences will have changed quite a bit. #If I were a future archaeologist/anthropoligist I'd probably be interested in such mundane things as hygiene, how parents and kids behave with one another, and what a person would consider significant enough to record in their diary and what they felt was too insignificant to warrant comment (e.g., operating a toilet, using a telephone, driving a car in traffic, etc.).