The begining of history?
Interesting article here from the BBC website by Sci-fi author Charles Stross - in it he suggests that ‘history has only just begun’ because while we can guess at the ‘wide stuff’ the day to day minute of peoples lives are largely unknown.
His idea? As I can figure it its that with modern technology being what it is future history students may use my blog, facebook and bebo accounts to reconstruct my life (or at least a significant portion of it anyway). Its an interesting idea but I’m not sure if its totally convincing….
My lack of belief lies mainly on the grounds of whether the technology he talks about will ever become fully available and even if it does finding the time to figure it all out would be ridiculous. I mean, in some ways I’m reminded of an issue of Warren Ellis’ future set ‘Transmetropolitan’ comic where the lead character points out that even big business or government groups hardly even bother to hide information becuase the sheer amount of information they release by themselves is nearly impossible to follow and that’s without contextualisation - so even if it Stross’ idea is the right one it may be a case of ‘drought to a flood’…