3. Considering the vast amount of digital records our society is leaving behind us, what questions about us will future historians possibly find to argue about? If even a minute fraction of the emails, photos, videos, blogs, advertisements, databases, etc., are still accessible and available in 500 years, it seems to me that no facet of our life will need to be guessed at.?The historian Barbara Tuchman, in a forward to one of her great books, The Proud Tower, wrote something to the effect that she would have liked to have included more details on the life of a common person, such as a blacksmith or shopkeeper, if she could only have found them in the historical record. In my opinion, future historians will have no such trouble finding a common person. So what will they have trouble finding? ? Matthew Kaplan
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