Submitted by TOMATO_ON_URANUS t3_111sqo6 in Futurology

Years ago on reddit, I read a thought-provoking piece (not sure if it was an external article or text post) about how, in a theoretical distant future, most people who are alive today will be studied as historical figures. The argument went something like: simply by virtue of exponential population growth, there will eventually be an unimaginably large number of historians, each becoming more and more specialized as any possible piece of historical information is exhaustively analyzed. To the point where each of us here, right now, will be studied just because the information will still be available because it's digital.

The title was something along the lines of "In the future, there will be an academic conference about you"

Any chance anyone knows what I'm talking about and where I could find it?

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npqd t1_j8hc40n wrote

I don't think a million of similar works will be interesting to anyone. Things are interesting when they are more or less unique, and here you say about historical studying of everyone living nowadays.

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Maximus_Shadow t1_j8lesle wrote

Reading this...just in case.

"Yes, if you are reading this in the future. You really really need to get a life. If society is this bad off your studying this....then clearly you need to start working towards a revolution, and changing your world"

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[deleted] t1_j8gmi0v wrote

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TOMATO_ON_URANUS OP t1_j8gpywu wrote

The author laid it out and justified it a lot better than I did, which is why I'm trying to find it.

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rogert2 t1_j8gs0b8 wrote

I think I read the same thing, although I'm not so sure it was on reddit.

I've checked my bookmarks and other reddit data and haven't found it.

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Maximus_Shadow t1_j8lenh8 wrote

No clue. But I will say the conference about me will probably be the one everyone sleeps in...

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