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Historical debate?

This has been hotly debated among the history community lately. How will the future view today's society? However, it's not as simple as that. The debate comes from how things will be recorded.

1) Will there be a "Dark Age" for future historians because their will be an information void since technology becomes obsolete faster today than ever before, thus preserving information more difficult. (ex: highly preserved Domesday Book of 1100s v.s. almost disasterous Domesday Project of 1986. Ex: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...

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2) Will there be too much information? If one were to study the year 1746, there is a finite number of sources to study. Today, however, where would a future historian, say in 300 years, begin to start dissecting our current culture and world? Will there be so many possible sources that they won't know what holds more merit or is more credible than others?

Observations? Opinions?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't believe that there is this is an either/or answer. History is composed of a tapestry of perspectives which most generally conflict. I remember living in Miami and trying to form a concise view of Revolutionary Cuba but i realized that the more i asked, the less certain i was about the Cuban state of affairs.
Now bear in mind, that was a pretty limited section of the total amount of perspectives relating to the time-place. They were all exiles and surely all had a reason to hate Fidel. But it just was not so. Many people left Cuba because their whole families had left already. Some people though they had made a huge mistake leaving Cuba. Some people were ultra right wing american dream types and other were anti-castro militiants who hated fidel slightly less than US consumerism.

My point is, if history escapes coherent analysis on general terms (your description of the Middle Ages as being "Dark" is hotly contested by the likes of me), how can you expect any type of general prediction of the future?

You should re focus your question to more specific matters. That way, the answerers will feel more comfortable about speculating and those who have a clue will reveal a bit about our present and past in their own prediction.
One of that type of questions is the often asked: when will the american empire fall? or whaqt do you think of the caliphate? or whatever...

to answer your question in your terms:
Rich countries are going to live in an unforeseeable future of dizzying gizmos and gadgets and the rest of the planet will live with the pollution, ignorance and violence that results from the rich's many pleasures...
advancement for the rich and dark ages for the poor... nothing will ever be new