I kind of like the way time filters out the best stuff and doesn’t leave history too clogged with the more trivial human creations. We’ve probably lost some good stuff from the ancients, but on the whole, the things people valued the most have survived down the ages in some form.
For a while I was afraid that more and more of the noise of today would be preserved thanks to the digital age, but now I’m not sure. It could be just the opposite. Are future generations going to want to deal with the terabytes (petabytes? exabytes? geopbytes?) of junk we are pumping out at the moment? I doubt it. Some commentators are even worried that the best of our digital content might not survive if we aren’t careful.
Love the photo of the commuters reading the paper. Certainly does pour cold water over the notion that devices are making us more antisocial.
OK, now I’ll shuddup and go back to staring absently through the window.