I think in the future, they'll reset the calendar with what is now 2000 being year zero. Because everything that happened after that ended up with an indexed web page, and thus is searchable. They'll call pre-2000 the pre-digital era and it'll be sort of like the line between Old English and modern English. I guess eventually we'll digitize everything that's ever been printed, but still.
Sadly, in the past I remember clearly thinking that, someday, when smart phones and high speed networks are ubiquitous and literally everyone has access to all the world's information at a touch of a button, the world would be a better place due to the increased knowledge of the average person. Democracy, I thought, could only prosper in the light of such egalitarian access to information. How wrong I was...
Sadly, in the past I remember clearly thinking that, someday, when smart phones and high speed networks are ubiquitous and literally everyone has access to all the world's information at a touch of a button, the world would be a better place due to the increased knowledge of the average person. Democracy, I thought, could only prosper in the light of such egalitarian access to information. How wrong I was...