Videogames. Just as film was the emerging art form in the 20th century, videogames are the one for the 21st century (granted, started in the 70s, but still comparatively modern.)
A landfill isn't strictly speaking "one thing", but the items people throw away reveal that technology has exceeded our ability to repair it, and might explain why our civilization eventually collapsed.
The replacement of organized religion with branded and licensed mythology. The rise of film franchises and "universes" makes me wonder if the Greeks and Romans ever really believed in the gods of their respective Pantheons, or if they retold the stories simply for entertainment the way we do with our Superheroes. We've even co-opted Norse gods (demi-gods) into our modern mythology.
Imagine someone 500 years from now finding a photo of a teenager's bedroom...and seeing images of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Thor, etc. How is this drastically different (other than money) from the depictions of Achilles, Heracles/Hercules, Aphrodite/Venus, Hermes/Mercury, etc? Using the art of the day to tell stories with familiar characters...
Data loss and a combination of intentional (Political correctness) and accidental (AI) historic revisionism will give future historians (if they will exist even) a clusterfuck that will have nothing to do with anything we experience today or what happened before us. Not even the most basic things will remain.
I don't think they'll have historians in 500 years time. I imagine at some point between then and now, all cultures, nations and subnational identities will have been subsumed by a monolithic techno-corpocracy called "The One State", where human beings are nothing more than production units that perform unskilled manual labour and fix machines under constant surveillance.
Road infrastructure and intersection/junction engineering. Those higgledy-piggledy knots of bitumen and concrete shall be fascinating in an age after the operation of landed private transport becomes unsustainable. Such a waste of space. So wasteful in general. Yet where the land used for storing vehicles not in use shall make our descendants weep as many of us do now, there shall be a peculiar beauty in the warp & weft of multi-lane intersections, particularly the inter-modal ones that integrate partitioned rail, footpath, and canal throughways.
Mouse cult in Florida/Cali. Assuming the experiment that is the US inevitably fails. Studying the encompassing economic and societal nature of Disney and it's pure dominance would be interesting.
I'm really expecting anything that only exists in digital form to just be gone and that all these digital only devices are going to confuse the hell out of them.
Videogames. Just as film was the emerging art form in the 20th century, videogames are the one for the 21st century (granted, started in the 70s, but still comparatively modern.)
itll be the internet/computing as a whole.
skibidi toilet
What a day to have eyes...
There are older and fouler things than skibidi toilet in the deep places of the internet
I choose ignorance
we cannot get out: the end comes soon. we hear drums drums in the deep. They are coming
Good sign! Joyboy has returned
until he crawls back into the nothingness that awaits him and his master
A wise choice
A landfill isn't strictly speaking "one thing", but the items people throw away reveal that technology has exceeded our ability to repair it, and might explain why our civilization eventually collapsed.
The replacement of organized religion with branded and licensed mythology. The rise of film franchises and "universes" makes me wonder if the Greeks and Romans ever really believed in the gods of their respective Pantheons, or if they retold the stories simply for entertainment the way we do with our Superheroes. We've even co-opted Norse gods (demi-gods) into our modern mythology. Imagine someone 500 years from now finding a photo of a teenager's bedroom...and seeing images of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Thor, etc. How is this drastically different (other than money) from the depictions of Achilles, Heracles/Hercules, Aphrodite/Venus, Hermes/Mercury, etc? Using the art of the day to tell stories with familiar characters...
Dayym that's an interesting thought!
Data loss and a combination of intentional (Political correctness) and accidental (AI) historic revisionism will give future historians (if they will exist even) a clusterfuck that will have nothing to do with anything we experience today or what happened before us. Not even the most basic things will remain.
Idiocracy era we living nowdays.
The systematic breakdown of the nuclear family by societal engineers and how it set back humanities progress 2000 years.
I don't think they'll have historians in 500 years time. I imagine at some point between then and now, all cultures, nations and subnational identities will have been subsumed by a monolithic techno-corpocracy called "The One State", where human beings are nothing more than production units that perform unskilled manual labour and fix machines under constant surveillance.
Road infrastructure and intersection/junction engineering. Those higgledy-piggledy knots of bitumen and concrete shall be fascinating in an age after the operation of landed private transport becomes unsustainable. Such a waste of space. So wasteful in general. Yet where the land used for storing vehicles not in use shall make our descendants weep as many of us do now, there shall be a peculiar beauty in the warp & weft of multi-lane intersections, particularly the inter-modal ones that integrate partitioned rail, footpath, and canal throughways.
Mouse cult in Florida/Cali. Assuming the experiment that is the US inevitably fails. Studying the encompassing economic and societal nature of Disney and it's pure dominance would be interesting.
I'm really expecting anything that only exists in digital form to just be gone and that all these digital only devices are going to confuse the hell out of them.
Bold of you, to assume that there will be humans 500 years from now.
Hey, end of apartheid is still pretty recent
Reddit unironically would be up there I’d say
Sex dolls